The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama

by Canfield, J. Douglas; Von Sneidern, Maja-Lisa

• ISBN13: 9781551115818
• ISBN10: 1551115816
• Edition: CONCISE
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Broadview Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Map	vi
Introduction	ix
Procedures	xix
The Old Troop; or, Monsieur Raggou (1664)	1	(42)
John Lacy
Maja-Lisa von Sneidern
Marriage a la Mode (1671)	43	(49)
John Dryden
Brian Corman
The Country Wife (1675)	92	(63)
William Wycherley
Peggy Thompson
The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter (1676)	155	(64)
George Etherege
John H. O'Neill
The Rover; or, The Banished Cavaliers (1677)	219	(56)
Aphra Behn
Anne Russell
All for Love; or, the World Well Lost (1677)	275	(46)
John Dryden
Tanya Caldwell
A True Widow (1678)	321	(60)
Thomas Shadwell
Christopher J. Wheatley
Venice Preserved; or, A Plot Discovered (1682)	381	(46)
Thomas Otway
Jessica Munns
Oroonoko (1695)	427	(49)
Thomas Southerne
Joyce Green MacDonald
The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger, Being the Sequel of The Fool in Fashion (1696)	476	(65)
John Vanbrugh
James E. Gill
The Way of the World (1700)	541	(50)
William Congreve
Richard Kroll
Love at a Loss; or, Most Votes Carry It (1700)	591	(46)
Catharine Trotter
Roxanne M. Kent-Drury
The Fair Penitent (1703)	637	(30)
Nicholas Rowe
Jean I. Marsden
The Beaux' Stratagem (1707)	667	(54)
George Farquhar
Helen M. Burke
A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718)	721	(41)
Susanna Centlivre
Nancy Copeland
The Conscious Lovers (1722)	762	(43)
Richard Steele
Lisa A. Freeman
The Beggar's Opera (1728)	805	(42)
John Gay
Dianne Dugaw
The London Merchant; or, The History of George Barnwell (1731)	847	(34)
George Lillo
Lincoln Faller
She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night (1773)	881	(44)
Oliver Goldsmith
Richard A. Barney
The School for Scandal (1777)	925	(53)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Mita Choudhury
The Belle's Stratagem (1780)	978	(49)
Hannah Cowley
Linda R. Payne
Glossary	1027	(6)
Index	1033