This exciting second edition provides an exceptional range of plays edited by leading scholars of Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre. In addition to fifteen plays from the first edition are four new plays and one new afterpiece: Nathaniel Lee's The Rival Queens, John Vanbrugh's The Provoked Wife, David Garrick's Miss in Her Teens, Richard Cumberland's The West Indian, and Elizabeth Inchbald's Such Things Are. Every play now features an engaging headnote and a fully edited dramatis personae, prologue, and epilogue. The innovative introduction plunges its readers into the experience of playgoing in London, and the second edition also features supplementary texts, including select actor and actress biographies and theatrical documents that provide a vivid cultural context.
| ISBN: | 9781554815746 |
| Publication date: | 15th December 2024 |
| Author: | Diana Solomon, David Weston, J Douglas Canfield |
| Publisher: | Broadview Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 944 pages |
| Series: | Broadview Anthologies of English Literature |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Comedic plays Tragic plays |
This exciting second edition provides an exceptional range of plays edited by leading scholars of Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre. In addition to fifteen plays from the first edition are four new plays and one new afterpiece: Nathaniel Lee's The Rival Queens, John Vanbrugh's The Provoked Wife, David Garrick's Miss in Her Teens, Richard Cumberland's The West Indian, and Elizabeth Inchbald's Such Things Are. Every play now features an engaging headnote and a fully edited dramatis personae, prologue, and epilogue. The innovative introduction plunges its readers into the experience of playgoing in London, and the second edition also features supplementary texts, including select actor and actress biographies and theatrical documents that provide a vivid cultural context.
The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama features in the following genres: Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Comedic plays, Tragic plays
The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama is available in Paperback
The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama was written by Diana Solomon, David Weston, J Douglas Canfield and published by Broadview Press
The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama has 944 pages
Yes it is part of Broadview Anthologies of English Literature series
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