Author:
Loftis, John, 1919-2012, ed.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1966.
Descriptionxi, 371 p. ; 21 cm.
Note:Restoration comedy: the reality and the myth / L.C. Knights -- L.C. Knights and Restoration comedy / F.W. Bateson -- Challenge of Restoration comedy / Guy Montgomery -- Sir George Etheredge / H.F.B. Brett-Smith -- Comic values:The man of mode / Dale Underwood -- Country Wife / Norman N. Holland -- Congreve / Bonamy Dobrée -- Congreve and the century's end / Clifford Leech -- Restoration tragedy: a reconsideration / Clifford Leech -- Significance of Dyrden's heroic plays / D.W. Jefferson -- Significance of Dryden's Aureng-Zebe / Arthur C. Kirsch -- Venice Preserv'd / Aline Mackenzie Tyalor -- Political strain in Augustan drama / John Loftis -- Shadwell, the ladies, and the change in comedy / John Harrington Smith -- Importance of Shaftesbury / Ernest Tuveson -- Sentimental mask / Paul E. Parnell -- Beggar's opera / Bertrand H. Bronson -- Nature to advantage dressed: eighteenth-century acting / Alan S. Downer.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
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