The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy

Brian Corman is Professor of English and Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto.

Preface
Introduction
Select Bibliography

John Dryden



Marriage à la Mode
BRIAN CORMAN, ED.

William Wycherley



The Country Wife
PEGGY THOMPSON, ED.

George Etherege



The Man of Mode; or, Sir FoplingFlutter
JOHN H. O’NEILL, ED.

Aphra Behn



The Rover; or, The Banished Cavaliers
ANNE RUSSELL, ED.

William Congreve



The Way of the World
RICHARD KROLL, ED.

Richard Steele



The Conscious Lovers
LISA A. FREEMAN, ED.

John Gay



The Beggar’s Opera
DIANNE DUGAW, 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 CHOUNDHURY, ED.

Frances Burney



The Witlings: A Comedy by a Sister of the Order
PETER SABOR AND GEOFFREY SILL, EDS.

Appendix: Critical Texts
DARRYL P. DOMINGO, ED.



From John Dryden, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668)
Thomas Shadwell, Preface to The Sullen Lovers; or, The Curious Impertinent (1668)
From John Dryden, Preface to An Evening’s Love; or, The Mock Astrologer (1671)
Thomas Shadwell, Preface to The Humourists (1671)
Aphra Behn, Preface to The Lucky Chance; or, An Alderman’s Bargain (1686)
From Nahum Tate, Preface to A Duke and No Duke (1693)
John Dennis, Letters to Congreve “On Humour” (1695)
William Congreve, “Concerning Humour in Comedy” (1695)
From Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profanenes of the English Stage (1698)
From William Congreve, Amendments of Mr. Collier’s False and Imperfect Citations (1698)
From Richard Steele, The Spectator (1711-14)
From John Dennis, “A Defense of Sir Fopling Flutter” (1722)
Richard Steele, Preface to The Conscious Lovers (1723)
From John Dennis, “Remarks on a Play Called The Conscious Lovers, A Comedy” (1723)
From Samuel Richardson, The Apprentice’s Vade Mecum; or, Young Man’s Pocket Companion (1734)
From Colley Cibber, An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (1740)
From John Hill, The Actor: A Treatise on the Art of Playing (1750)
From Samuel Johnson, The Rambler (1750-52)
From Oliver Goldsmith, “An Essay on the Theatre; or, A Comparison between Laughing and Sentimental Comedy” (1773)
From Samuel Johnson, The Lives of the Poets (1779-81)

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