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This exciting new edition provides an exceptional range of plays edited by leading scholars of Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre. In addition to fifteen canonical plays from the first edition are five newly edited plays: Lee's The Rival Queens, Vanbrugh's The Provoked Wife, Garrick's Miss in her Teens, Cumberland's The West Indian, and Inchbald's Such Things Are. Every play now features an engaging headnote and a fully edited dramatis personae, prologue, and epilogue. The innovative introduction plunges its readers into the experience of playgoing in London, and the edition features supplementary texts including select actor and actress biographies and theatrical documents that provide excellent context.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Map
Actor and Actress BiographiesWilliam Wycherley
The Country Wife
Peggy Thompson, ed.
George Etherege
The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter
John H. O'Neill, ed.
Nathaniel Lee
The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great
David Weston, ed.
Aphra Behn
The Rover; or, The Banished Cavaliers
Anne Russell, ed.
John Dryden
All for Love; or, The World Well Lost
Tanya Caldwell, ed.
Thomas Otway
Venice Preserved; or, A Plot Discovered
Jessica Munns, ed.
Aphra Behn
The Lucky Chance; or, An Alderman's Bargain
Lori Snook, ed.
Thomas Southerne
Oroonoko
Joyce Green MacDonald, ed.
Sir John Vanbrugh
The Provoked Wife
Diana Solomon, ed.
William Congreve
The Way of the World
Richard Kroll, ed.
George Farquhar
The Beaux' Stratagem
Helen M. Burke, ed.
Susanna Centlivre
A Bold Stroke for a Wife
Nancy Copeland, ed.
John Gay
The Beggar's Opera
Dianne Dugaw, ed.
George Lillo
The London Merchant; or, The History of George Barnwell
Lincoln Faller, ed.
From "The Ballad of George Barnwell"
David Garrick
Miss in her Teens: or, The Medley of Lovers
Leslie Ritchie, ed.
Richard Cumberland
The West Indian
Brett D. Wilson, ed.
Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night
Richard A. Barney, ed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The School for Scandal
Mita Choudhury, ed.
Hannah Cowley
The Belle's Stratagem
Linda R. Payne, ed.
Elizabeth Inchbald
Such Things Are
Chelsea Phillips, ed.
Appendix: Critical Texts
1. From John Dryden, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668)
2. From John Dryden, Preface to An Evening's Love; or, The Mock Astrologer (1671)
3. Thomas Shadwell, Preface to The Humourists (1671)
4. William Congreve, "Concerning Humour in Comedy" (1695)
5. From Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698)
6. From William Congreve, Amendments of Mr. Collier's False and Imperfect Citations (1698)
7. From John Vanbrugh, A Short Vindication of The Relapse and The Provoked Wife, from Immorality and Profaneness (1698)
8. From Richard Steele, The Spectator (1711-1714)
9. From John Dennis, "A Defense of Sir Fopling Flutter" (1722)
10. From Samuel Richardson, The Apprentice's Vade Mecum; or, Young Man's Pocket Companion (1734)
11. From Colley Cibber, An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (1740)
12. From John Hill, The Actor: A Treatise on the Art of Playing (1750)
13. From Oliver Goldsmith, "An Essay on the Theatre; or, A Comparison between Laughing and Sentimental Comedy" (1773)
14. From Samuel Johnson, The Lives of the Poets (1779-1781)
Glossary
Index
Online Supplement
John Dryden
Marriage à la Mode
Brian Corman, ed.
Colley Cibber
Love's Last Shift; or, The Fool in Fashion
Gary A. Richardson, ed.
John Vanbrugh
The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger, Being the Sequel of The Fool in Fashion
James E. Gill, ed.
Mary Pix
The Beau Defeated; or, The Lucky Younger Brother
Elizabeth Kubek, ed.
Nicholas Rowe
The Fair Penitent
Jean I. Marsden, ed.
Richard Steele
The Conscious Lovers
Lisa A. Freeman, ed.
Henry Fielding
The Author's Farce
Jill Campbell, ed.
