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The Cambridge companion to English Restoration theatre / edited by Deborah Payne Fisk. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000. - xxvii, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge companions to literature. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-288) and index.

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

ISBN: 9780521582155 0521582156 9780521588126 (pbk.) 052158812X (pbk.)

LCCN: 99015230

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English drama--History and criticism.--Restoration, 1660-1700
Theater--History--England--17th century.

LC Class. No.: PR691 / .C35 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 822/.409