Perspectives on Restoration Drama

by Susan Owen

• ISBN13: 9780719049675
• ISBN10: 0719049679
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-06-15
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This book introduces students to drama from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the early 18th Century. Susan Owen offers representative coverage of new forms of drama in this period, and of ways in which old forms are altered. Her study covers heroic drama, comedy, tragedy, tragi-comedy, and Shakespeare adaptations, by focusing on specific 'dramatic highlights' and giving close reading of particular plays.

Author Biography

Susan Owen is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sheffield.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Heroic tragi-comedy: John Dryden's The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, Parts I and II	p. 9
Comedy I: William Wycherley's The Country Wife	p. 42
Comedy II: Aphra Behn's The Rover; or, The Banish't Cavaliers	p. 65
Tragedy I: Nathaniel Lee's Lucius Junius Brutus	p. 85
Tragedy II: Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd	p. 121
Shakespeare adapted: John Dryden's Troilus and Cressida	p. 147
Bibliography	p. 171
Index	p. 195
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