Restoration Drama An Anthology

This new anthology provides seventeen key plays by twelve dramatists of the Restoration period in an anthology designed specifically for course use, with annotations and judiciously modernized texts. It offers a representative sampling of the types of play of the period, including plays by both men and women - sex comedy, moral comedy, heroic drama, Shakespearean adaptation and political history.

David Womersley has been a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Jesus College, Oxford since 1984. He has published widely on English Literature from the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Previous publications include, Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1994), Gibbon: Bicentenary Essays (1997), Augustan Critical Writing (1997), The Transformation of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1988).

Introduction

vii

A Note on the Text

ix

The Adventures of Five Hours (1662)

1

(42)

Sir Samuel Tuke

The Great Favourite, or The Duke of Lerma (1668)

43

(30)

Sir Robert Howard

The Conquest of Granada (1670)

73

(68)

John Dryden

The Rehearsal (1671)

141

(30)

Buckingham

The Country Wife (1675)

171

(52)

William Wycherley

The Plain Dealer (1676)

223

(64)

William Wycherley

The Man of Mode (1676)

287

(50)

Sir George Etherege

The Rover (1677)

337

(48)

Aphra Behn

All for Love (1677)

385

(44)

John Dryden

Lucius Junius Brutus (1680)

429

(36)

Nathaniel Lee

Venice Preserv'd (1682)

465

(38)

Thomas Otway

Love for Love (1695)

503

(50)

William Congreve

Love's Last Shift (1696)

553

(42)

Colley Cibber

The Relapse (1696)

595

(52)

Sir John Vanbrugh

The Way of the World (1700)

647

(44)

William Congreve

The Recruiting Officer (1706)

691

(44)

George Farquhar

The Beaux' Stratagem (1707)

735

(42)

George Farquhar

The Busie Body (1709)

777

(38)

Susannah Centlivre

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Restoration Drama An Anthology

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