Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy

Abstract

plays are fully annotated for the modern reader and are accompanied by six illustrations. close relationship between theater and society during the period continues to be the focus of Contexts. editor offers contemporary discussions of the following topics: Wit, Humour, and Laughter: 1660-1775, The Collier Controversy: 1698, Steele and Dennis: On Man of Mode and Conscious Lovers, and Stages, Actors, and Audiences. Criticism has been revised to reflect approaches in scholarly interpretations. Two seminal essays from the First Edition have been retained-Charles Lamb's appreciation of the period's comedy and L. C. Knights's condemnation of it. New essays by Jocelyn Powell, Harriet Hawkins, Elin Diamond, Martin Price, and Laura Brown have been added.

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