English Drama: Restoration and Eighteenth Century 1660-1789 by Richard W. Bevis, Mark Anderson

English Drama: Restoration and Eighteenth Century 1660-1789

Longman Literature in English Series

Richard W. Bevis, Mark Anderson

356 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

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What were the causes of Restoration drama's licentiousness? How did the elegantly-turned comedy of Congreve become the pointed satire of Fielding? And how did Sheridan and Goldsmith reshape the materials they inherited? In the first account of the...

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