Restoration and eighteenth-century comedy  authoritative texts of the plays, context, criticism 
edited by Scott McMillin 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - New York   W.W. Norton & Company  1997 
 - xv, 628 p. :  ill. ;   21.5 cm. 
 - A Norton critical edition .
<br/><br/> Includes bibliography. 
<br/><br/>a  THE TEXTS OF PLAYS : The country wife /  The man of mode /  The rover /  The way of the world /  The conscious lovers/  The school for scandal /  CONTEXTS : ON WIT, HUMOUR AND LAUGHTER : 1660-1775 : On laughter /  On wit /  On power /  Preface to an evening's love : or, the mock astrologer /  Concerning Humour in comedy /  Epilogue to the lying lover /  The tatler, no. 219 /  The spectator, no. 47 /  The spectator, no. 62 /  An essay on theater /  THE COLLIER CONTROVERSY : 1698 : A short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage /  The usefulness of the stage /  Amendments Mr. Collier's false and imperfect citations  /  STEELE AND DENNIS : ON THE MAN OF MODE AND THE CONSCIOUS LOVERS : The spectator, no. 65 /  The theatre, no. 1 /  The theatre, no. 3 /  A defense of sir fopling flutter /  Remarks on the conscious lovers /  STAGES, ACTORS AND AUDIENCES : The theatrical world, 1600-1700 /  The arrival of the actress /  The audience /  Scenery and lighting /  CRITICISM : On the artificial comedy of the last century /  Restoration comedy : the reality and the myth /  Visual rhythm in the country wife /  The man of mode /  Gest and signature in Aphrs Behn's the rover /  From and wit in the way of the world /  The way of the world /  Sentimentalism and social history /  William Wyherley --  George Etherege --  Aphra Behn --  William Congreve --  Richard Steele --  Richard Brinsley Sheridan --  Thomas Hobbes --  Thomas Hobbes --  Thomas Hobbes --  John Dryden --  William Congreve --  Richard Steele --  Richard Steele --  Joseph Addison --  Joseph Addison --  Oliver Goldsmith --  Jeremy Collier --   John Dennis --  William Congreve --   Richard Steele --  Richard Steele --  Richard Steele --  John Dennis --  John Dennis --  Emmet L. Avery and Arthur H. Scouten --  Elizabeth Howe --  Emmet L. Avery and Arthur H. Scouten --  Charles Beecher Hogan --  Charles lamb --  L. C. Knight --  Jocelyn Powell --  Harriet Hawkins --   Elin Diamond --  Martin Price --  Laura Brown --  Raymond Williams  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0393963349 9780393963342 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English literature--Drama--Comedy--Critical appraisal--Restoration period<br/>English
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Criticism 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>822.05230904  / MCR