Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama

Name: Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama
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ISBN: 9781551112701

ISBN-10: 1551112701

ISBN-13: 9781551112701

Edition: 2001

Authors: J. Douglas Canfield, Maja-Lisa von Sneidern

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This is the first new full-scale anthology of Restoration and eighteenth-century drama in over sixty years. Concentrating on plays from the heyday of 1660-1737, it focuses especially on Restoration drama proper (1660-1688) and Revolution drama (1689-1714), with a smaller selection of plays from the early Georgian period (1715-1737) and a glimpse at the later Georgian period's "laughing comedy" (1770s and 80s). It includes nine sub-genres (heroic romance, political tragedy, personal tragedy, tragicomic romance, social comedy, subversive comedy, corrective satire, menippean satire, and laughing comedy), with the preponderance of exposure given to the jewel of this theatre, its comedy.The core…

Book details

List price: $76.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Broadview Press
Publication date: 5/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 2000
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.69" tall
Weight: 4.048
Language: English

J. Douglas Canfield is Regents Professor of English and Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Arizona.



Introduction


Procedures


Map


Heroic Romance


The History of Henry the Fifth



Tamerlane



Lucius, The First Christian King of Britain



Political Tragedy


The Unhappy Favorite



Lucius Junius Brutus



Cato



Personal Tragedy


All for Love



The Fair Penitent



The London Merchant



Tragicomic Romance


Marriage a la Mode



Oroonoko



The Conscious Lovers



Social Comedy


The Committee



The Man of Mode



The Rover



City Politics



Love's Last Shift



The Way of the World



The Beau Defeated



Love at a Loss



A Bold Stroke for a Wife



Subversive Comedy


The Old Troop



The Careless Lovers



The Country Wife



Friendship in Fashion



A True Widow



Sir Anthony Love



The Beaux' Stratagem



The Beggar's Opera



Corrective Satire


The Princess of Cleves



The Lucky Chance



The Relapse



Polly



Menippean Satire


The Rump



A Fond Husband



Venice Preserved



Amphitryon



The Author's Farce



Laughing Comedy


The Belle's Stratagem



She Stoops to Conquer



The School for Scandal



Glossary


Index of Authors and Titles