English Drama, 1660-1700

English Drama, 1660-1700
Author: Derek Hughes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 528
Release: 1996
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

This extremely readable volume analyses many individual texts, often in detail and for the first time, and also places them within the whole range of contemporary theatrical output, with its diversity of outlook and constant shifts in fashion and subject.

The Restoration Transposed

The Restoration Transposed
Author: Gillian Wright
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108493971

An innovative account of the literary Restoration that stresses its diversity, historical self-awareness, and openness to new voices.

The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660–1700

The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660–1700
Author: Deborah C. Payne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2024-05-31
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1009398210

Deborah C. Payne explores how the duopoly of 1660 impacted company practices, stagecraft, the box office, and actors and writers.

The First English Actresses

The First English Actresses
Author: Elizabeth Howe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1992-06-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521422109

This book describes how and why women were permitted to act on the public stage after 1660 in England.

The Norton Anthology of Drama

The Norton Anthology of Drama
Author: J. Ellen Gainor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1792
Release: 2018
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780393283471

Comprehensive and up-to-date, now with more instructor resources

A Companion to Restoration Drama

A Companion to Restoration Drama
Author: Susan J. Owen
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2008-02-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781405176101

This Companion illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work 1660 to 1710. Twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field bring together the best recent insights into the full range of dramatic practice and innovation at the time. Introduces readers to the recent boom in scholarship that has revitalised Restoration drama Explores historical and cultural contexts, genres of Restoration drama, and key dramatists, among them Dryden and Behn