Full Description
The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, Concise Edition, with twenty-one plays, is half the length of the full anthology without compromising its breadth. Concentrating on plays from the heyday of 1660-1737, it focuses on Restoration drama proper and Revolution drama, with a selection from the early Georgian period and the later Georgian period's "laughing comedy." Seven of the nine sub-genres (personal tragedy, tragicomic romance, social comedy, subversive comedy, corrective satire, menippean satire, and laughing comedy) of the full anthology are represented, with the preponderance of exposure given to the jewel of this theatre, its comedy.
Each play is fully annotated and prefaced with an historical introduction. Also included are a general introduction, a statement of procedures, and a glossary.
Contents
Map
Introduction
Procedures
John Lacy
The Old Troop; or,
Monsieur Raggou (1664)
Maja-Lisi von Sneidern, ed.
John Dryden
Marriage a la Mode (1671)
Brian German, ed.
William Wycherley
The Country Wife (1675)
Peggy Thompson, ed.
George Etberege
The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling
Flutter (1576)
John H. O'Neill, ed. 155
Aphra Behn
The Rover; or, The Banished Cavaliers (1677)
Anne Russell, ed. 219
John Dryden
All for Love; or, the World
Well Lost (1677)
Tanya Caldwell, ed. 275
Thomas Shadwell
A True Widow (1678)
Christopher J. Wheatley, ed. 321
Thomas Otway
Venice Preserved; or, A Plot
Discovered (1682)
Jessica Munns, ed. 381
Thomas Southerne
Oroonoko (1695)
Joyce Green MacDonald, ed. 427
John Vanbrugh
The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger, Being
the Sequel of The Fool in Fashion (1696)
James E. Gill, ed.
William Congreve
The Way of the World (1700)
Richard Kroll, ed.
Catharine Trotter
Love at a. Loss; or, Most Votes
Carry It (1700)
Roxanne M. Kent-Drury, ed.
Nicholas Rowe
The Fair Penitent (1703)
Jean I. Marsden, ed.
George Farquhar
The Beaux' Stratagem (1707)
Helen M. Burke, ed.
Susanna Centlivre
A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718)
Nancy Copeland, ed.
Richard Steele
The Conscious Lovers (1722)
Lisa A. Freeman, ed.
John Gay
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
Dianne Dugaw, ed.
George Lillo
The London Merchant; or, The
History of George Barnwell (1731)
Lincoln Faller, ed.
Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer; or, The
Mistakes of a Night (1773)
Richard A. Barney, ed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The School for Scandal (1777)
Mita Choudhury, ed.
Hannah Cowley
The Belle's Stratagem (1780)
Linda R. Payne, ed.
Glossary
Index
