The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy

ISBN-13: 9781551119229 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 616 str.

Brian Corman

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Ten classic plays from the golden age of theatrical comedy are collected in this new anthology.

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Preface
Introduction
Select Bibliography

John Dryden

• Marriage à la Mode
  BRIAN CORMAN, ED.

William Wycherley

• The Country Wife
  PEGGY THOMPSON, ED.

George Etherege

• The Man of Mode; or, Sir FoplingFlutter
  JOHN H. O’NEILL, ED.

Aphra Behn

• The Rover; or, The Banished Cavaliers
  ANNE RUSSELL, ED.

William Congreve

• The Way of the World
  RICHARD KROLL, ED.

Richard Steele

• The Conscious Lovers
  LISA A. FREEMAN, ED.

John Gay

• The Beggar’s Opera
  DIANNE DUGAW, ED.

Oliver Goldsmith

• She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night
  RICHARD A. BARNEY, ED.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

• The School for Scandal
  MITA CHOUNDHURY, ED.

Frances Burney

• The Witlings: A Comedy by a Sister of the Order
  PETER SABOR AND GEOFFREY SILL, EDS.

Appendix: Critical Texts
DARRYL P. DOMINGO, ED.

1. From John Dryden, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668)
2. Thomas Shadwell, Preface to The Sullen Lovers; or, The Curious Impertinent (1668)
3. From John Dryden, Preface to An Evening’s Love; or, The Mock Astrologer (1671)
4. Thomas Shadwell, Preface to The Humourists (1671)
5. Aphra Behn, Preface to The Lucky Chance; or, An Alderman’s Bargain (1686)
6. From Nahum Tate, Preface to A Duke and No Duke (1693)
7. John Dennis, Letters to Congreve “On Humour” (1695)
8. William Congreve, “Concerning Humour in Comedy” (1695)
9. From Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profanenes of the English Stage (1698)
10. From William Congreve, Amendments of Mr. Collier’s False and Imperfect Citations (1698)
11. From Richard Steele, The Spectator (1711-14)
12. From John Dennis, “A Defense of Sir Fopling Flutter” (1722)
13. Richard Steele, Preface to The Conscious Lovers (1723)
14. From John Dennis, “Remarks on a Play Called The Conscious Lovers, A Comedy” (1723)
15. From Samuel Richardson, The Apprentice’s Vade Mecum; or, Young Man’s Pocket Companion (1734)
16. From Colley Cibber, An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (1740)
17. From John Hill, The Actor: A Treatise on the Art of Playing (1750)
18. From Samuel Johnson, The Rambler (1750-52)
19. From Oliver Goldsmith, “An Essay on the Theatre; or, A Comparison between Laughing and Sentimental Comedy” (1773)
20. From Samuel Johnson, The Lives of the Poets (1779-81)

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