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Author Payne Fisk, Deborah, editor

Title The Cambridge companion to English Restoration theatre / edited by Deborah Payne Fisk
Edition 1st ed
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000
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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 294 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge companions to literature
Cambridge companions to literature
Contents The theatre / Edward A. Langhans -- The performance / Joseph Roach -- Adaptations and revivals / Michael Dobson -- Comedy / Brian Corman -- Tragedy / Christopher J. Wheatley -- Tragicomedy / Nancy Klein Maguire -- Farce / Peter Holland -- Restoration and settlement: 1660 and 1688 / Derek Hughes -- Change, skepticism, and uncertainty / Jessica Munns -- Drama and political crisis / Susan J. Owen -- Spectacle, horror, and pathos / Jean I. Marsden -- Gender, sexuality, and marriage / Pat Gill -- Playwright versus priest: profanity and the wit of restoration comedy / Michael Cordner -- The canon and its critics / Robert Markley
Summary This rich and varied portrait of the drama from 1660 to 1714 provides students with essential information about playwrights, staging and genres, situating them in the social and political culture of the time
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-288) and index
Notes Mode of access: World Wide Web
English
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Subject English drama -- Restoration, 1660-1700 -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
English drama -- Restoration, 1660-1700 -- History and criticism
Literature and history -- Great Britain
Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century
Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Restoration, 1660-1688
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung
Einführung
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Handbooks and manuals.
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Fisk, Deborah C. Payne
Cambridge University Press
LC no. 99015230
ISBN 0511999364
0521582156
052158812X
1139796925
1139815717
9780511999369
9780521582155
9780521588126
9781139796927 (e-book)
9781139815710 (e-book)
Other Titles English restoration theatre
OTHER TI Cambridge companions online