The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama

J. Douglas Canfield, Maja-Lisa von Sneidern (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

2000 Seiten

2001
Broadview Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-55111-270-1 (ISBN)

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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 canonical plays from the era—from Dryden's All for Love and Behn's The Rover to Congreve's The Way of the World and Sheridan's School for Scandal—are all here, but so are a remarkably wide range of non-canonical works. There are many more plays by women than in any previous general anthology of drama of the period. Also included are a number of works from the neglected 1660s, whose comedies feature delightful, subversive, levelling folk elements. In all there are forty-one plays; each is fully annotated and prefaced with an historical introduction. Also included are a general introduction, head-notes for each genre, and a glossary.

The late J. Douglas Canfield, General Editor, was Regents' Professor of English and Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Arizona. Among his many works on Restoration and eighteenth-century literature are Heroes and States: On the Ideology of Restoration Tragedy and Tricksters and Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy. Maja-Lisa von Sneidern is an adjunct instructor at the University of Arizona.

Introduction
Procedures
Map

Heroic Romance

The History of Henry the Fifth
Roger Boyle, First Earl of Orrery

Tamerlane
Nicholas Rowe

Lucius, The First Christian King of Britain
Delarivier Manley

Political Tragedy

The Unhappy Favorite
John Banks

Lucius Junius Brutus
Nathaniel Lee

Cato
Joseph Addison

Personal Tragedy

All for Love
John Dryden

The Fair Penitent
Nicholas Rowe

The London Merchant
George Lillo

Tragicomic Romance

Marriage a la Mode
John Dryden

Oroonoko
Thomas Southerne

The Conscious Lovers
Richard Steele

Social Comedy

The Committee
Sir Robert Howard

The Man of Mode
George Etherege

The Rover
Aphra Behn

City Politics
John Crowne

Love’s Last Shift
Colley Cibber

The Way of the World
William Congreve

The Beau Defeated
Mary Fix

Love at a Loss
Catharine Trotter

A Bold Stroke for a Wife
Susanna Centlivre

Subversive Comedy

The Old Troop
John Lacy

The Careless Lovers
Edward Ravenscroft

The Country Wife
William Wycherley

Friendship in Fashion
Thomas Otway

A True Widow
Thomas Shadwell

Sir Anthony Love
Thomas Southerne

The Beaux’ Stratagem
George Farquhar

The Beggar’s Opera
John Gay

Corrective Satire

The Princess of Cleves
Nathaniel Lee

The Lucky Chance
Aphra Behn

The Relapse
John Vanbrugh

Polly
John Gay

Menippean Satire

The Rump
John Tatham

A Fond Husband
Thomas Durfey

Venice Preserved
Thomas Otway

Amphitryon
John Dryden

The Authors Farce
Henry Fielding

Laughing Comedy

The Belle’s Stratagem
Hannah Cowley

She Stoops to Conquer
Oliver Goldsmith

The School for Scandal
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Glossary
Index of Authors and Titles

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.5.2001
Verlagsort	Peterborough
Sprache	englisch
Maße	197 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1712 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
ISBN-10	1-55111-270-1 / 1551112701
ISBN-13	978-1-55111-270-1 / 9781551112701
Zustand	Neuware