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Restoration Drama

Restoration Drama

Eugene M. Waith
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This unique collection explores the full range and vitality of Restoration drama. It includes the best, most characteristic work of the period in heroic tragedy and comedy of manners, hard-to-find plays by significant writers and brilliant favorites that hold the stage today.

Designed to offer a complete approach to the plays in their historic context, the edition features authoritative texts, newly edited and annotated by leading scholar Eugene Waith. A comprehensive critical essay precedes each play, and general introductions by John Gassner and Professor Waith provide indispensable background on the social, theatrical and literary trends with influenced the dramatists.

THE COUNTRY WIFE - William Wycherley
THE MAN OF MODE - George Etherege
ALL FOR LOVE - John Dryden
VENICE PRESERVED - Thomas Otway
THE RELAPSE - John Vanbrugh
THE WAY OF THE WORLD - William Congreve

Edited and with an introd. by Eugene Waith. With a pref. on the seventeenth-century theater by John Gassner.
Language
English
Pages
607
Format
Paperback
Release
March 01, 1968

Restoration Drama

Eugene M. Waith
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This unique collection explores the full range and vitality of Restoration drama. It includes the best, most characteristic work of the period in heroic tragedy and comedy of manners, hard-to-find plays by significant writers and brilliant favorites that hold the stage today.

Designed to offer a complete approach to the plays in their historic context, the edition features authoritative texts, newly edited and annotated by leading scholar Eugene Waith. A comprehensive critical essay precedes each play, and general introductions by John Gassner and Professor Waith provide indispensable background on the social, theatrical and literary trends with influenced the dramatists.

THE COUNTRY WIFE - William Wycherley
THE MAN OF MODE - George Etherege
ALL FOR LOVE - John Dryden
VENICE PRESERVED - Thomas Otway
THE RELAPSE - John Vanbrugh
THE WAY OF THE WORLD - William Congreve

Edited and with an introd. by Eugene Waith. With a pref. on the seventeenth-century theater by John Gassner.
Language
English
Pages
607
Format
Paperback
Release
March 01, 1968

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