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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy (Norton Critical Editions)Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy (Norton Critical Editions)
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On the particular day that I reviewed this Norton Critical Edition, Restoration and Eighteenth...
Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists (Oxford English Drama)Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists (Oxford English Drama)
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These four plays, written by women dramatists during the Restoration, are now available in a...
Players, Playwrights, Playhouses: Investigating Performance, 1660-1800 (Redefining British Theatre History)Players, Playwrights, Playhouses: Investigating Performance, 1660-1800 (Redefining British Theatre History)
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This innovative collection brings together a group of leading theatre historians to identify and...
A Bold Stroke for a WifeA Bold Stroke for a Wife
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Though critics and literary historians have always had to admit that Susanna Centlivre's...
Five Romantic Plays, 1768-1821 (Oxford World's Classics)Five Romantic Plays, 1768-1821 (Oxford World's Classics)
Thriving during a period of profound revolution in Europe, the British Romantic theatre found...


British Drama, 1660-1779: A Critical History (Twayne's Critical History of British Drama)British Drama, 1660-1779: A Critical History (Twayne's Critical History of British Drama)The Plays of David Garrick, Volume 7: Garrick's Own Plays, 1757 - 1773The Plays of David Garrick, Volume 7: Garrick's Own Plays, 1757 - 1773
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David Garrick's accomplishments as an actor, manager, and theatrical innovator brought him great...
The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIV: Plays; The Kind Keeper, The Spanish Fryar, The Duke of Guise, and The Vindication (Works of John Dryden)The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIV: Plays; The Kind Keeper, The Spanish Fryar, The Duke of Guise, and The Vindication (Works of John Dryden)
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Kept women, comic clerics, and political schemers enliven the four plays in this volume of the...
Plays of Henry Fielding: A Critical Study of His Dramatic CareerPlays of Henry Fielding: A Critical Study of His Dramatic Career
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APOLOGY F/T LIFE MR COLLEY (Satire and Sense)APOLOGY F/T LIFE MR COLLEY (Satire and Sense)


HUGH KELLY'S COMEDY SCH (Satire and Sense)HUGH KELLY'S COMEDY SCH (Satire and Sense)The Rakish Stage: Studies in English Drama, 1660-1800The Rakish Stage: Studies in English Drama, 1660-1800SIR JOHN VANBRUGH'S CONF (Satire & Sense)SIR JOHN VANBRUGH'S CONF (Satire & Sense)Plain Dealer (Swan Theatre Plays)Plain Dealer (Swan Theatre Plays)
Man. Nay, good young gentleman, enough, for shame! Thou hast been a page, by thy flattering and...
Colley Cibber (Twayne's English Authors Series)Colley Cibber (Twayne's English Authors Series)
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I'll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth InchbaldI'll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth Inchbald
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Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald (1753-1821) was one of the leading literary figures of the late...
The Dramatic Works of George Lillo (Oxford English Texts)The Dramatic Works of George Lillo (Oxford English Texts)
George Lillo's domestic tragedies provided the impetus for the development of new forms of...
Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida (The Works of John Dryden, Vol 13)Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida (The Works of John Dryden, Vol 13)
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The Female Wits (Augustan Reprints)The Female Wits (Augustan Reprints)
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Plays by George Colman the Younger and Thomas Morton: Inkle and Yarico, The Surrender of Calais, The Children in the Wood, Blue Beard or Female Curiosity, ... Plough (British and American Playwrights)Plays by George Colman the Younger and Thomas Morton: Inkle and Yarico, The Surrender of Calais, The Children in the Wood, Blue Beard or Female Curiosity, ... Plough (British and American Playwrights)
This volume contains edited texts of five plays by two late eighteenth-century dramatists. The...

THOMAS D'URFEY'S VIRTUOUS (Satire and Sense)THOMAS D'URFEY'S VIRTUOUS (Satire and Sense)PLAYS GEORGE COL ELD 6VL (Eighteenth-century English drama)PLAYS GEORGE COL ELD 6VL (Eighteenth-century English drama)John Gay and the London TheatreJohn Gay and the London Theatre
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POPULARITY OF ADDISON'S (Garland Publications in American and English Literature)POPULARITY OF ADDISON'S (Garland Publications in American and English Literature)Colley Cibber: A BiographyColley Cibber: A Biography
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RICHARD CUMBERLAND'S WHEEL (Satire and Sense)RICHARD CUMBERLAND'S WHEEL (Satire and Sense)Selected Comedies: Elizabeth InchbaldSelected Comedies: Elizabeth Inchbald
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These five selected comedies spanning some twelve years in Elizabeth Inchbald's outstanding...
Dramatic Works: Volume 2 (Oxford English Texts)Dramatic Works: Volume 2 (Oxford English Texts)THOMAS D'UREFFY'S RICHMOND (Satire and Sense)THOMAS D'UREFFY'S RICHMOND (Satire and Sense)John Gay and the Scriblerians (Critical Studies)John Gay and the Scriblerians (Critical Studies)

Getting into the Act: Women Playwrights in London, 1776 - 1829 (Critical Readers in Theory and Practice)Getting into the Act: Women Playwrights in London, 1776 - 1829 (Critical Readers in Theory and Practice)
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Getting into the Act is a vigorous and refreshing account of seven female playwrights who,...
The Borderers (Cornell Wordsworth)The Borderers (Cornell Wordsworth)
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The Island Queens: Or, the Death of Mary, Queen of Scotland a Tragedy (1684) (Augustan Reprints)The Island Queens: Or, the Death of Mary, Queen of Scotland a Tragedy (1684) (Augustan Reprints)
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The Foundling: A Comedy ; And, the Gamester: A TragedyThe Foundling: A Comedy ; And, the Gamester: A Tragedy
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Revenge Tragedy (New Casebooks)Revenge Tragedy (New Casebooks)
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Stevie Simkin collects essays on five plays which are representative of the genre of revenge...

The Plays of Colley CibberThe Plays of Colley Cibber
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Dramatic Representations of British Soldiers and Sailors on the London Stage, 1660-1800: Britons, Strike Home (Studies in British History)Dramatic Representations of British Soldiers and Sailors on the London Stage, 1660-1800: Britons, Strike Home (Studies in British History)
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Freeman, although he has wonderful support for the point in his booke, is long winded, and...
Restoration and Eighteenth Century Dramatists: Third Series (Dictionary of Literary Biography)Restoration and Eighteenth Century Dramatists: Third Series (Dictionary of Literary Biography)
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Sheridan and Goldsmith (English Dramatists)Sheridan and Goldsmith (English Dramatists)Elizabeth Inchbald: England's Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century LondonElizabeth Inchbald: England's Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London

The Recruiting Officer (Revels Plays)The Recruiting Officer (Revels Plays)
A crisp, clear edition of the famous play about a whoremastering Captain who, because his...
British Romantic Drama: Historical and Critical EssaysBritish Romantic Drama: Historical and Critical Essays
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The Provoked Wife (Revels Plays)The Provoked Wife (Revels Plays)
New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume...
Henry Fielding and the London Theatre 1728-1737Henry Fielding and the London Theatre 1728-1737
Fielding's ten years as England's premier dramatist and theatre manager have long been...
The Plays of Frances SheridanThe Plays of Frances Sheridan
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PLAYS JAS THOMSON 1700-48 2VLS (Satire and Sense)PLAYS JAS THOMSON 1700-48 2VLS (Satire and Sense)COLLEY CIBBER'S DOUBLE GALLANT (Satire and Sense)COLLEY CIBBER'S DOUBLE GALLANT (Satire and Sense)The Life and Works of Richard Brinsley SheridanThe Life and Works of Richard Brinsley SheridanThe Unpublished Plays of Richard Cumberland (Ams Studies in the Eighteenth Century)The Unpublished Plays of Richard Cumberland (Ams Studies in the Eighteenth Century)
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The Emergence of Dramatic Criticism in England: From Jonson to PopeThe Emergence of Dramatic Criticism in England: From Jonson to Pope
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How and why did the discipline of criticism emerge in England in the seventeenth and early...

Sheridan: Interviews and RecollectionsSheridan: Interviews and Recollections
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Love and Thunder: Plays by Women in the Age of Queen Anne (Methuen New Theatrescript)Love and Thunder: Plays by Women in the Age of Queen Anne (Methuen New Theatrescript)Women, Nationalism, and the Romantic Stage: Theatre and Politics in Britain, 1780-1800 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)Women, Nationalism, and the Romantic Stage: Theatre and Politics in Britain, 1780-1800 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
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In the 1780s and 90s, theater critics described the stage as a state in political tumult, while...
A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737
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Constant Couple (Swan Theatre Plays)Constant Couple (Swan Theatre Plays)
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Sentimental Comedy: Theory and Practice (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)Sentimental Comedy: Theory and Practice (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought)
Sentimental comedy became a distinctive dramatic form on the London stage in the eighteenth...
William Congreve (English Dramatists)William Congreve (English Dramatists)
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This study of Congreve's plays locates his work firmly in the context of the literary,...
Fielding's Burlesque Drama: Its Place in the Tradition (University of Durham Series, Vol 2)Fielding's Burlesque Drama: Its Place in the Tradition (University of Durham Series, Vol 2)
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