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Restoration Drama: An Anthology

Womersley, David

9780631209027 - Restoration Drama: An Anthology
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This exciting new anthology captures the variety and richness of Restoration Drama. It provides annotated and judiciously modernized texts of the following plays: Tuke, The Adventures of Five Hours (1662); Howard, The Duke of Lerma (1668); Dryden, The Conquest of Granada (1670); Buckingman, The Rehearsal (1671); Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675); Wycherley, The Plain Dealer (1676); Etherege, The Man of Mode (1676); Behn, The Rover (1677); Dryden, All for Love (1677); Lee, Lucius Junicus Brutus (1680); Otway, Venice Preserved (1682); Congreve, Love for Love (1695); Cibber, Loves Last Shift (1696); Vanburgh, The Relapse (1696); Congreve, The Way of the World (1700); Farquhar, The Recruiting Officer (1706); Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem (1707); and, Centlivre, The Busie Body (1709).The volume offers a representative sampling of many of the different types of play put on in the period (sex comedy, moral comedy, heroric drama, Shakespearean adaptation and political history).

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Author Womersley, David
ISBN/EAN 9780631209027
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Article description

This exciting new anthology captures the variety and richness of Restoration Drama. It provides annotated and judiciously modernized texts of the following plays: Tuke, The Adventures of Five Hours (1662); Howard, The Duke of Lerma (1668); Dryden, The Conquest of Granada (1670); Buckingman, The Rehearsal (1671); Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675); Wycherley, The Plain Dealer (1676); Etherege, The Man of Mode (1676); Behn, The Rover (1677); Dryden, All for Love (1677); Lee, Lucius Junicus Brutus (1680); Otway, Venice Preserved (1682); Congreve, Love for Love (1695); Cibber, Loves Last Shift (1696); Vanburgh, The Relapse (1696); Congreve, The Way of the World (1700); Farquhar, The Recruiting Officer (1706); Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem (1707); and, Centlivre, The Busie Body (1709).The volume offers a representative sampling of many of the different types of play put on in the period (sex comedy, moral comedy, heroric drama, Shakespearean adaptation and political history).

Specifications

Author Womersley, David
ISBN/EAN 9780631209027