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Informationen zum Autor David Womersley has been a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Jesus College! Oxford since 1984. He has published widely on English Literature from the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Previous publications include! "Edward Gibbon!" "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (1994)! "Gibbon: Bicentenary Essays" (1997)! "Augustan Critical Writing" (1997)! "The Transformation of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (1988). Klappentext This exciting new anthology captures the variety and richness of Restoration Drama. It provides annotated and judiciously modernized texts of the following plays: Tuke, The Adventures of Five Hours. (1662); Howard, The Duke of Lerma. (1668); Dryden, The Conquest of Granada. (1670); Buckingman, The Rehearsal. (1671); Wycherley, The Country Wife. (1675); Wycherley, The Plain Dealer. (1676); Etherege, The Man of Mode. (1676); Behn, The Rover. (1677); Dryden, All for Love. (1677); Lee, Lucius Junicus Brutus. (1680); Otway, Venice Preserved. (1682); Congreve, Love for Love. (1695); Cibber, Love's Last Shift. (1696); Vanburgh, The Relapse. (1696); Congreve, The Way of the World. (1700); Farquhar, The Recruiting Officer. (1706); Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem. (1707); Centlivre, The Busie Body. (1709) The volume offers a representative sampling of many of the different types of play put on in the period (sex comedy, moral comedy, heroric drama, Shakespearean adaptation and political history) At the same time, the even distribution of the plays throughout the period encourages students to refelct on the development of the drama over the full fifty years covered by thte anthology. It includes plays by both men and women, as well as dramatic ripostes such as The Rehearsal and The Relapse, which evoke so vividly the adversarial and dialectical world of the theatre in the second half of the seventeenth century. Zusammenfassung Captures the variety and richness of Restoration Drama. This title provides annotated and modernized texts of the following plays: "Tuke! The Adventures of Five Hours" (1662)! "Howard! The Duke of Lerma" (1668)! "Dryden! The Conquest of Granada" (1670)! "Buckingman! The Rehearsal" (1671)! and "Wycherley! The Country Wife" (1675). Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. A Note on The Text.1. The Adventures of Five Hours. (1662) Sir Samuel Tuke.2. The Great Favourite! or The Duke of Lerma. (1668) Sir Robert Howard 3. The Conquest of Granada. (1670) John Dryden4. The Rehearsal. (1671) Buckingham 5. The Country Wife. (1675) William Wycherley6. The Plain Dealer. (1676) William Wycherley7. The Man of Mode. (1676) Sir George Etherege8. The Rover. (1677) Aphra Behn9. All for Love. (1677) John Dryden 10. Lucius Junicus Brutus. (1680) Nathaniel Lee11. Venice Preserved. (1682) Thomas Otway12. Love for Love. (1695) William Congreve 13. Love's Last Shift. (1696) Colley Cibber14. The Relapse. (1696) Sir John Vanbrugh15. The Way of the World. (1700) William Congreve 16. The Recruiting Officer. (1706) George Farguhar 17. The Beaux Stratagem. (1707) George Farquhar18. The Busie Body. (1709) Susannah CentlivreFurther Reading.Index. ...
