A Companion to Restoration Drama

A Companion to Restoration Drama

Author: Susan J. Owen

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2008-02-26

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9781405176101

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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


The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre

The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre

Author: Deborah Payne Fisk

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-05-11

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780521588126

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Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.


The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn

The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn

Author: Derek Hughes

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-11-25

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1139826948

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Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in America. Behn's work straddles the genres: beside drama and fiction, she also excelled in poetry and she made several important translations from French libertine and scientific works. This Companion discusses and introduces her writings in all these fields and provides the critical tools with which to judge their aesthetic and historical importance. It also includes a full bibliography, a detailed chronology and a description of the known facts of her life. The Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker.


Broken Boundaries

Broken Boundaries

Author: Katherine M. Quinsey

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2021-03-17

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0813159997

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This volume of twelve original essays is the first comprehensive study of feminist issues in Restoration drama. The late seventeenth century marks a pivotal era in the history of feminism, when Renaissance assumptions about gender and patriarchy were being directly challenged. For the first time, women appeared onstage as actresses, made their presence felt as spectators and patrons, and wrote a number of the plays produced in theaters. In an unusually direct and probing way, drama of the Restoration period raised radical questions about the place of women in the family and in society, and about the essential nature of men and women. The essays examine feminist issues from a variety of historical and theoretical approaches across a spectrum of plays—comedies, tragedies, tragicomedies, and heroic drama. By addressing the acute questions of gender raised in the drama, Broken Boundaries presents a vivid portrait of the uncertainties and changing perceptions in all areas of intellectual, political, and social life during the last decades of the seventeenth century.


Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theater

Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theater

Author: Deborah Payne Fisk

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2010-12-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0820337897

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Ranging in approach from feminist to historicist, the eleven essays in this collection share the culturalist premise that the drama of late Stuart and early Georgian England helped to constitute the dominant ideology of the period. The contributors' varied approaches allow for the reconsideration of libertinism, the politics of sexual desire, and other classic issues, as well as such newer concerns as the social construction of the first English actresses, empiricism as an emergent epistemological discourse, cultural anxiety about novelty and repetition, and shifting tropes of inherent worth. By reading well-known works in unexpected ways and focusing on less frequently studied dramatists, from Sedley, Motteux, Pix, and Behn to Manley, Trotter, and Shadwell, the contributors also test the limits of the canon. In addition, they suggest that earlier critical perceptions, perhaps even more than the “innate worth” of the plays, determined the shape of the canon. These essays present a different image of Restoration and eighteenth-century theater, one that reveals how the drama was a site as important for the negotiation of cultural meaning as were novels and verse satires.


Acting in Restoration Comedy

Acting in Restoration Comedy

Author: Simon Callow

Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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Simon Callow leads a two-day class on Restoration comedy with a group of British actors, including Gail McFarlane, Harry Meacher, Pamela Moiseiwitsch and Michael Stroud. It deals with The relapse by John Vanbrugh and shows practical acting techniques.


A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

Author: Cynthia Wall

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0470757493

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This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature. Contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets. Searches out connections between the remarkable number of new genres that appeared in the eighteenth century. Crosses conventional disciplinary lines. Demonstrates that philosophy, history, politics and social theory both influence and are influenced by literature.


Regicide and Restoration

Regicide and Restoration

Author: Nancy Klein Maguire

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-12-10

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780521416221

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Focusing on the directions taken by tragicomedy and the court masque, this book accounts for the shift in genre during the decade following the return of Charles II.


The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan

The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan

Author: Anne Dunan-Page

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-06-10

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0521733081

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A comprehensive introduction to Bunyan's life and works, examining their place in the broader context of seventeenth-century history and literature.