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041			_aeng
082			_a822.05230904 _bMCR
245			_aRestoration and eighteenth-century comedy _bauthoritative texts of the plays, context, criticism _cedited by Scott McMillin
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aNew York _bW.W. Norton & Company _c1997
300			_axv, 628 p. : _bill. ; _c 21.5 cm.
490	0		_aA Norton critical edition
500			_aIncludes bibliography.
505	0	0	_aa _tTHE TEXTS OF PLAYS : The country wife / _rWilliam Wyherley -- _tThe man of mode / _rGeorge Etherege -- _tThe rover / _rAphra Behn -- _tThe way of the world / _rWilliam Congreve -- _tThe conscious lovers/ _rRichard Steele -- _tThe school for scandal / _rRichard Brinsley Sheridan -- _tCONTEXTS : ON WIT, HUMOUR AND LAUGHTER : 1660-1775 : On laughter / _rThomas Hobbes -- _tOn wit / _rThomas Hobbes -- _tOn power / _rThomas Hobbes -- _tPreface to an evening's love : or, the mock astrologer / _rJohn Dryden -- _tConcerning Humour in comedy / _rWilliam Congreve -- _tEpilogue to the lying lover / _rRichard Steele -- _tThe tatler, no. 219 / _rRichard Steele -- _tThe spectator, no. 47 / _rJoseph Addison -- _tThe spectator, no. 62 / _rJoseph Addison -- _tAn essay on theater / _rOliver Goldsmith -- _tTHE COLLIER CONTROVERSY : 1698 : A short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage / _rJeremy Collier -- _tThe usefulness of the stage / _rJohn Dennis -- _tAmendments Mr. Collier's false and imperfect citations / _rWilliam Congreve -- _tSTEELE AND DENNIS : ON THE MAN OF MODE AND THE CONSCIOUS LOVERS : The spectator, no. 65 / _rRichard Steele -- _tThe theatre, no. 1 / _rRichard Steele -- _tThe theatre, no. 3 / _rRichard Steele -- _tA defense of sir fopling flutter / _rJohn Dennis -- _tRemarks on the conscious lovers / _rJohn Dennis -- _tSTAGES, ACTORS AND AUDIENCES : The theatrical world, 1600-1700 / _rEmmet L. Avery and Arthur H. Scouten -- _tThe arrival of the actress / _rElizabeth Howe -- _tThe audience / _rEmmet L. Avery and Arthur H. Scouten -- _tScenery and lighting / _rCharles Beecher Hogan -- _tCRITICISM : On the artificial comedy of the last century / _rCharles lamb -- _tRestoration comedy : the reality and the myth / _rL. C. Knight -- _tVisual rhythm in the country wife / _rJocelyn Powell -- _tThe man of mode / _rHarriet Hawkins -- _tGest and signature in Aphrs Behn's the rover / _rElin Diamond -- _tFrom and wit in the way of the world / _rMartin Price -- _tThe way of the world / _rLaura Brown -- _tSentimentalism and social history / _rRaymond Williams
650		0	_aEnglish literature _xDrama _xComedy _xCritical appraisal _yRestoration period
650		0	_aEnglish
653			_aCriticism
700	1		_4ed. _aMcMillin, Scott
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