The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama

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

• ISBN13: 9781551112701
• ISBN10: 1551112701
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Broadview Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Procedures
Map
Heroic Romance	p. 1
The History of Henry the Fifth	p. 2
Tamerlane	p. 38
Lucius, The First Christian King of Britain	p. 75
Political Tragedy	p. 103
The Unhappy Favorite	p. 104
Lucius Junius Brutus	p. 147
Cato	p. 186
Personal Tragedy	p. 217
All for Love	p. 218
The Fair Penitent	p. 264
The London Merchant	p. 294
Tragicomic Romance	p. 329
Marriage a la Mode	p. 330
Oroonoko	p. 379
The Conscious Lovers	p. 428
Social Comedy	p. 471
The Committee	p. 472
The Man of Mode	p. 526
The Rover	p. 590
City Politics	p. 646
Love's Last Shift	p. 710
The Way of the World	p. 760
The Beau Defeated	p. 810
Love at a Loss	p. 857
A Bold Stroke for a Wife	p. 903
Subversive Comedy	p. 945
The Old Troop	p. 946
The Careless Lovers	p. 987
The Country Wife	p. 1038
Friendship in Fashion	p. 1101
A True Widow	p. 1155
Sir Anthony Love	p. 1215
The Beaux' Stratagem	p. 1278
The Beggar's Opera	p. 1332
Corrective Satire	p. 1375
The Princess of Cleves	p. 1376
The Lucky Chance	p. 1428
The Relapse	p. 1480
Polly	p. 1545
Menippean Satire	p. 1595
The Rump	p. 1596
A Fond Husband	p. 1642
Venice Preserved	p. 1689
Amphitryon	p. 1735
The Author's Farce	p. 1782
Laughing Comedy	p. 1825
The Belle's Stratagem	p. 1826
She Stoops to Conquer	p. 1874
The School for Scandal	p. 1918
Glossary	p. 1971
Index of Authors and Titles	p. 1977
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