Restoration and eighteenth-century comedy : authoritative texts of the plays, context, criticism / edited by Scott McMillin

Includes bibliography.

a THE TEXTS OF PLAYS : The country wife / William Wyherley -- The man of mode / George Etherege -- The rover / Aphra Behn -- The way of the world / William Congreve -- The conscious lovers/ Richard Steele -- The school for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- CONTEXTS : ON WIT, HUMOUR AND LAUGHTER : 1660-1775 : On laughter / Thomas Hobbes -- On wit / Thomas Hobbes -- On power / Thomas Hobbes -- Preface to an evening's love : or, the mock astrologer / John Dryden -- Concerning Humour in comedy / William Congreve -- Epilogue to the lying lover / Richard Steele -- The tatler, no. 219 / Richard Steele -- The spectator, no. 47 / Joseph Addison -- The spectator, no. 62 / Joseph Addison -- An essay on theater / Oliver Goldsmith -- THE COLLIER CONTROVERSY : 1698 : A short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage / Jeremy Collier -- The usefulness of the stage / John Dennis -- Amendments Mr. Collier's false and imperfect citations / William Congreve -- STEELE AND DENNIS : ON THE MAN OF MODE AND THE CONSCIOUS LOVERS : The spectator, no. 65 / Richard Steele -- The theatre, no. 1 / Richard Steele -- The theatre, no. 3 / Richard Steele -- A defense of sir fopling flutter / John Dennis -- Remarks on the conscious lovers / John Dennis -- STAGES, ACTORS AND AUDIENCES : The theatrical world, 1600-1700 / Emmet L. Avery and Arthur H. Scouten -- The arrival of the actress / Elizabeth Howe -- The audience / Emmet L. Avery and Arthur H. Scouten -- Scenery and lighting / Charles Beecher Hogan -- CRITICISM : On the artificial comedy of the last century / Charles lamb -- Restoration comedy : the reality and the myth / L. C. Knight -- Visual rhythm in the country wife / Jocelyn Powell -- The man of mode / Harriet Hawkins -- Gest and signature in Aphrs Behn's the rover / Elin Diamond -- From and wit in the way of the world / Martin Price -- The way of the world / Laura Brown -- Sentimentalism and social history / Raymond Williams