num_pages: 324
description: This rich and varied portrait of drama from 1660 to 1714 provides students with essential information about playwrights, staging and genres in their social and political context. The theater that followed the Restoration of Charles II is revealed in all of its tumult, energy and conflict. Contributors pay attention to major and minor playwrights, the first professional female dramatists, the performance aspects of the drama and the main dramatic genres and themes.
language: English
title: The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre
titlecomplete: The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
genres: Nonfiction, History, Theatre
ratings_count: 20
publisher: Cambridge University Press