A Companion to Restoration Drama

Copyright © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Restoration Drama

Editor(s): Susan J. Owen

Published Online: 27 FEB 2013 08:12PM EST

Print ISBN: 9780631219231

Online ISBN: 9781118663400

DOI: 10.1002/9781118663400

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This Companion illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work 1660 to 1710. Twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field bring together the best recent insights into the full range of dramatic practice and innovation at the time.


  • Introduces readers to the recent boom in scholarship that has revitalised Restoration drama
  • Explores historical and cultural contexts, genres of Restoration drama, and key dramatists, among them Dryden and Behn

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xvi)

  2. Part I: The Drama in Context

    1. Chapter 1

      The Post-1660 Theatres as Performance Spaces (pages 1–18)

      Edward A. Langhans

    2. Chapter 2

      Restoration Dramatic Theory and Criticism (pages 19–35)

      Paul D. Cannan

    3. Chapter 3

      Theatrical Regulation during the Restoration Period (pages 36–52)

      Matthew J. Kinservik

    4. Chapter 4

      Libertinism and Sexuality (pages 53–68)

      Maximillian E. Novak

    5. Chapter 5

      The Restoration Actress (pages 69–91)

      Deborah Payne Fisk

    6. Chapter 6

      Masculinity in Restoration Drama (pages 92–108)

      Laura J. Rosenthal

    7. Chapter 7

      Images of Monarchy on the Restoration Stage (pages 109–125)

      Jessica Munns

    8. Chapter 8

      Restoration Drama and Politics: An Overview (pages 126–139)

      Susan J. Owen

    9. Chapter 9

      Restoration Drama and Social Class (pages 140–160)

      Aparna Dharwadker

    10. Chapter 10

      Race, Performance and the Silenced Prince of Angola (pages 161–176)

      Mita Choudhury

    11. Chapter 11

      Restoration Drama after the Restoration: The Critics, the Repertory and the Canon (pages 177–192)

      Brian Corman

  3. Part II: Kinds of Drama

    1. Chapter 12

      Heroic Drama and Tragicomedy (pages 193–210)

      Derek Hughes

    2. Chapter 13

      Restoration Comedy (pages 211–227)

      J. Douglas Canfield

    3. Chapter 14

      Tragedy and Varieties of Serious Drama (pages 228–242)

      Jean I. Marsden

    4. Chapter 15

      London Theatre Music, 1660–1719 (pages 243–273)

      Todd S. Gilman

    5. Chapter 16

      Shakespeare and Other Adaptations (pages 274–290)

      Sandra Clark

    6. Chapter 17

      Rakes, Wives and Merchants: Shifts from the Satirical to the Sentimental (pages 291–308)

      Kirk Combe

  4. Part III: Dramatists

    1. Chapter 18

      William Davenant and John Dryden (pages 309–325)

      Richard Kroll

    2. Chapter 19

      ‘Still on the Criminal's Side, against the Innocent’: Etherege, Wycherley and the Ironies of Wit (pages 326–339)

      Robert Markley

    3. Chapter 20

      ‘Who Vices Dare Explode’: Thomas Shadwell, Thomas Durfey and Didactic Drama of the Restoration (pages 340–354)

      Christopher J. Wheatley

    4. Chapter 21

      Otway, Lee and the Restoration History Play (pages 355–377)

      Paulina Kewes

    5. Chapter 22

      Elkanah Settle, John Crowne and Nahum Tate (pages 378–395)

      Don-John Dugas

    6. Chapter 23

      Two Female Playwrights of the Restoration: Aphra Behn and Susanna Centlivre (pages 396–411)

      Cynthia Lowenthal

    7. Chapter 24

      William Congreve and Thomas Southerne (pages 412–428)

      Miriam Handley

    8. Chapter 25

      Sir John Vanbrugh and George Farquhar in the Post-Restoration Age (pages 429–445)

      John Bull

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      Index (pages 446–456)

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