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This magisterial work forms a close critical study of all the surviving plays first written and professionally premiered in England between 1660 and 1700. Hughes's readable volume analyses many texts, often in detail and for the first time, and also places them within the range of contemporary theatrical output, with its diversity of outlook and constant shifts in fashion and subject. The Country-Wife and The Man of Mode are treated not as typical `Restoration Comedies' but as almost unique plays. Hughes also presents innovative work on the politcal, intellectual, and social background of the corpus, with extensive discussion of its treatment of women and the contribution of women dramatists.
Author Notes
Derek Hughes is at University of Warwick.
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Choice Review
No one planning to write papers or books on Restoration drama will ignore this work. Developed from a series of articles, and complementing and expanding Robert Hume's The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century (CH, Sep'76), it is an admirably detailed study of "all surviving plays" of the period. Hughes's very economical and considered critiques (up to five pages for major plays) concisely place each play in the context of influence, genre, history (theatrical, political, and social), religion, and philosophy, yet he also offers acute comments on language structures. This close attention to chronology and to shifting and contrary tastes and influences makes Hughes's survey authoritative and persuasive. The dozen chapters alternate comedy and tragedy; a conclusion regales the reader with deft and fascinating observations. An extensive bibliography of nondramatic texts precedes an index of all mentioned plays and a general index. This masterful work is in many ways the culmination of the careful research in this period by many scholars over the last two decades. B. E. McCarthy College of the Holy Cross
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vi |
| Chapter 1 'to Call Every Thing into Question'Influences on the Drama | p. 1 |
| Chapter 2 Astraea Redux? Drama, 1660-1668 | p. 30 |
| Chapter 3 'Where is Astrea Fled?': Tragedy1668-1676 | p. 78 |
| Chapter 4 'the Freedoms of the Present'Comedy, 1668-1676 | p. 113 |
| Chapter 5 'A Song Expressing the Change of Their Condition': Tragicomedy and Opera1668-1676 | p. 162 |
| Chapter 6 'senseless Riot, Neronian Gambols'Comedy, 1676-1682 | p. 185 |
| Chapter 7 'Not One Mark of Former Majesty'Tragedy, 1676-1682 | p. 240 |
| Chapter 8 'Dire is the Dearth and Famine on The Stage': Drama, 1682-1688 | p. 307 |
| Chapter 9 'the Surprising Success of the Baudy Batchelour': Comedy, 1688-1695 | p. 331 |
| Chapter 10 'A Cause like Yours Would Summon The Just Gods: ' Tragedy, 1688-1695 | p. 358 |
| Chapter 11 'Madam, You Have Done Exemplary Justice': Comedy, 1695-1700 | p. 377 |
| Chapter 12 'scarce a Good One Play'D'Tragedy, 1695-1700 | p. 424 |
| Conclusion | p. 450 |
| Bibliography of Non-Dramatic Texts | p. 459 |
| Index of Plays | p. 473 |
| General Index | p. 492 |
