About the Contributors viii
Preface and Acknowledgements xii
PART I The Drama in Context 1
1 The Post-1660 Theatres as Performance Spaces 3
Edward A.. Langhans
2 Restoration Dramatic Theory and Criticism 19
Paul D. Cannan
3 Theatrical Regulation during the Restoration Period 36
Matthew J. Kinservik
4 Libertinism and Sexuality 53
Maximillian E. Novak
5 The Restoration Actress 69
Deborah Payne Fisk
6 Masculinity in Restoration Drama 92
Laura J. Rosenthal
7 Images of Monarchy on the Restoration Stage 109
Jessica Munns
8 Restoration Drama and Politics: An Overview 126
Susan J. Owen
9 Restoration Drama and Social Class 140
Aparna Dharwadker
10 Race, Performance and the Silenced Prince of Angola 161
Mita Choudhury
11 Restoration Drama after the Restoration: The Critics, the
Repertory and the Canon 177
Brian Corman
PART II Kinds of Drama 193
12 Heroic Drama and Tragicomedy 195
Derek Hughes
13 Restoration Comedy 211
J. Douglas Canfield
14 Tragedy and Varieties of Serious Drama 228
Jean I. Marsden
15 London Theatre Music, 1660-1719 243
Todd S. Gilman
16 Shakespeare and Other Adaptations 274
Sandra Clark
17 Rakes, Wives and Merchants: Shifts from the Satirical to the
Sentimental 291
Kirk Combe
PART III Dramatists 309
18 William Davenant and John Dryden 311
Richard Kroll
19 'Still on the Criminal's Side, against the Innocent':
Etherege, Wycherley and the Ironies of Wit 326
Robert Markley
20 'Who Vices Dare Explode': Thomas Shadwell, Thomas Durfey and
Didactic Drama of the Restoration 340
Christopher J. Wheatley
21 Otway, Lee and the Restoration History Play 355
Paulina Kewes
22 Elkanah Settle, John Crowne and Nahum Täte 378
Don-John Dugas
23 Two Female Playwrights of the Restoration: Aphra Behn and
Susanna Centlivre 396
Cynthia Lowenthal
24 William Congreve and Thomas Southerne 412
Miriam Handley
25 Sir John Vanbrugh and George Farquhar in the Post-Restoration
Age 429
John Bull
Index 446
Susan J. Owen teaches in the Department of English Literature at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Restoration Theatre and Crisis (1996) and Perspectives on Restoration Drama (forthcoming), as well as numerous articles and essays on Restoration drama, a piece on Andrew Marvell and a theoretical article, ‘Chaos Theory, Marxism and Literature; (new formations, 1996). She has also edited A Babel of Bottles: Drink, Drinkers and Drinking Places in Literature (2000).
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