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Product Description: The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, Concise Edition, with twenty-one plays, is half the length of the full anthology without compromising its breadth. Concentrating on plays from the heyday of 1660-1737, it focuses on Restoration drama proper and Revolution drama, with a selection from the early Georgian period and the later Georgian period’s “laughing comedy...read more

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Product Description: To understand the cultural history of England during the Restoration, one need look no further than the theater, which was attended by the gentry as well as by members of the middle and lower classes. The theater of this period embodied the values, meanings, and power relations of Restoration England...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Ranging in approach from feminist to historicist, the 11 essays in this collection share the culturalist premise that the drama of the late Stuart and early Georgian England helped to constitute the dominant ideology of the period.

Product Description: This collection of essays on the rhetorics of order in English neoclassical literature includes Rose A. Zimbardo's investigation of generic slippage between drama and novel in works by Dryden and Behn; Maynard Mack's analysis of Pope's enduring rhetorics of presentation; and Patricia Meyer Spacks's examination of the heroines of Clarissa and the Italian...read more

Product Description: Book by Canfield, J. Douglas

Essays discuss Faulkner's novel about a young woman who becomes involved with gangsters