The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama Concise Edn CON

This 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."

1. Douglas Canfield is Regents' Professor of English at the 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".

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.

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Introduction

Procedures

John Lacy - The Old Troop (1664), edited by Maja-Lisa von Sneidern

John Dryden - *Marriage à la Mode* (1671), edited by Brian Corman

William Wycherley - The Country Wife (1675), edited by Peggy Thompson

George Etherege - The Man of Mode (1676), edited by John H. O'Neill

Aphra Behn - The Rover (1677), edited by Anne Russell

John Dryden - All for Love (1677), edited by Tanya Caldwell

Thomas Shadwell - A True Widow (1678), edited by Christoper J. Wheatley

Thomas Otway - Venice Preserved (1682), edited by Jessica Munns

Thomas Southerne - Oroonoko (1695), edited by Joyce Green MacDonald

John Vanbrugh - The Relapse (1696), edited by James E. Gill

William Congreve - The Way of the World (1700), edited by Richard Kroll

Catharine Trotter - Love at a Loss (1700), edited by Roxanne M. Kent-Drury

Nicholas Rowe - The Fair Penitent (1703), edited by Jean I. Marsden

George Farquhar - The Beaux' Stratagem (1707), edited by Helen M. Burke

Susanna Centlivre - A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718), edited by Nancy Copeland

Richard Steele - The Conscious Lovers (1722), edited by Lisa A. Freeman

John Gay - The Beggar's Opera (1728), edited by Diane Dugaw

George Lillo - The London Merchant (1731), edited by Lincoln Faller

Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer (1773), edited by Richard A. Barney

Richard Brinsley Sheridan - School for Scandal (1777), edited by Mita Choudhury

Hannah Cowley - The Belle's Stratagem (1780), edited by Linda R. Payne

Glossary

Index