A Companion To Restoration Drama Susan J Owen by Susan J. Owen 9780631219231, 9781118663400, 0631219234, 1118663403 instant download after payment.

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

Content:
Chapter 1 The Post?1660 Theatres as Performance Spaces (pages 1–18): Edward A. Langhans
Chapter 2 Restoration Dramatic Theory and Criticism (pages 19–35): Paul D. Cannan
Chapter 3 Theatrical Regulation during the Restoration Period (pages 36–52): Matthew J. Kinservik
Chapter 4 Libertinism and Sexuality (pages 53–68): Maximillian E. Novak
Chapter 5 The Restoration Actress (pages 69–91): Deborah Payne Fisk
Chapter 6 Masculinity in Restoration Drama (pages 92–108): Laura J. Rosenthal
Chapter 7 Images of Monarchy on the Restoration Stage (pages 109–125): Jessica Munns
Chapter 8 Restoration Drama and Politics: An Overview (pages 126–139): Susan J. Owen
Chapter 9 Restoration Drama and Social Class (pages 140–160): Aparna Dharwadker
Chapter 10 Race, Performance and the Silenced Prince of Angola (pages 161–176): Mita Choudhury
Chapter 11 Restoration Drama after the Restoration: The Critics, the Repertory and the Canon (pages 177–192): Brian Corman
Chapter 12 Heroic Drama and Tragicomedy (pages 193–210): Derek Hughes
Chapter 13 Restoration Comedy (pages 211–227): J. Douglas Canfield
Chapter 14 Tragedy and Varieties of Serious Drama (pages 228–242): Jean I. Marsden
Chapter 15 London Theatre Music, 1660–1719 (pages 243–273): Todd S. Gilman
Chapter 16 Shakespeare and Other Adaptations (pages 274–290): Sandra Clark
Chapter 17 Rakes, Wives and Merchants: Shifts from the Satirical to the Sentimental (pages 291–308): Kirk Combe
Chapter 18 William Davenant and John Dryden (pages 309–325): Richard Kroll
Chapter 19 ‘Still on the Criminal's Side, against the Innocent’: Etherege, Wycherley and the Ironies of Wit (pages 326–339): Robert Markley
Chapter 20 ‘Who Vices Dare Explode’: Thomas Shadwell, Thomas Durfey and Didactic Drama of the Restoration (pages 340–354): Christopher J. Wheatley
Chapter 21 Otway, Lee and the Restoration History Play (pages 355–377): Paulina Kewes
Chapter 22 Elkanah Settle, John Crowne and Nahum Tate (pages 378–395): Don?John Dugas
Chapter 23 Two Female Playwrights of the Restoration: Aphra Behn and Susanna Centlivre (pages 396–411): Cynthia Lowenthal
Chapter 24 William Congreve and Thomas Southerne (pages 412–428): Miriam Handley
Chapter 25 Sir John Vanbrugh and George Farquhar in the Post?Restoration Age (pages 429–445): John Bull