Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy

Name: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy
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ISBN: 9780393963342

ISBN-10: 0393963349

ISBN-13: 9780393963342

Edition: 2nd 1997

Authors: Scott McMillin

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This Second Edition builds on its predecessor's strengths by adding a sixth play, Aphra Behn's The Rover, a comedy that has clearly come into prominence in recent years. The plays are fully annotated for the modern reader and are accompanied by six illustrations. The close relationship between theater and society during the period continues to be the focus of "Contexts." The editor offers contemporary discussions of the following topics: "On Wit, Humour, and Laughter: 1660-1775," "The Collier Controversy: 1698," "Steele and Dennis: On The Man of Mode and The Conscious Lovers," and "Stages, Actors, and Audiences." "Criticism" has been revised to reflect approaches in scholarly…

Book details

List price: $13.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 648
Size: 0.52" wide x 0.84" long x 0.14" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Scott McMillin (1934-2006) was Professor of English at Cornell University. He was the coauthor of "The Queen's Men and Their Plays" and the author of "The Elizabethan Theatre and the Book of Sir Thomas More".