The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama brings together the work of key playwrights from 1660 to 1800, divided into three main sections:

• Restoring the Theatre: 1660?1700
• Managing Entertainment: 1700?1760
• Entertainment in an Age of Revolutions: 1760?1800

Each of the 20 plays featured is accompanied by an extraordinary wealth of print and online supplementary materials, including primary critical sources, commentaries, illustrations, and reviews of productions. Taking in the spectrum of this period?s dramatic landscape?from Restoration tragedy and comedies of manners to ballad opera and gothic spectacle?The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama is an essential resource for students and teachers alike.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Introduction: Performing Drama, Performing Culture

Theatrical Biographies

Restoring the Theatre: 1660-1700

John Dryden and William Davenant, The Enchanted Island or The Tempest

William Wycherley, The Country Wife

George Etherege, The Man of Mode

John Dryden, All For Love

Aphra Behn, The Widdow Ranter

John Van Brugh, The Relapse

Managing Entertainment, 1700-1760

William Congreve, The Way of the World

Susanna Centlivre, The Busie Body

John Rich, The Necromancer, or Harlequin Doctor Faustus and John Thurmond, Harlequin Doctor Faustus

John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera

Henry Fielding, The Author’s Farce

George Lillo, The London Merchant

Samuel Foote, The Minor (1760)

Entertainment in an Age of Revolutions, 1760-1800

David Garrick, The Jubilee

Richard Cumberland, The West Indian

Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal

Hannah Cowley, The Belle’s Stratagem

George Colman, Inkle and Yarico

Elizabeth Inchbald, Everyone Has His Fault

Kristina Straub is Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.

Misty Anderson is Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Theatre at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Daniel O’Quinn is Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph.