num_pages: 648
description: The plays are fully annotated for the modern reader and are accompanied by six illustrations. The close relationship between theater and society during the period continues to be the focus of Contexts. The editor offers contemporary discussions of the following topics: On Wit, Humour, and Laughter: 1660 1775, The Collier Controversy: 1698, Steele and Dennis: On The Man of Mode and The Conscious Lovers, and Stages, Actors, and Audiences. Criticism has been revised to reflect approaches in scholarly interpretations. Two seminal essays from the First Edition have been retained Charles Lamb s appreciation of the period s comedy and L. C. Knights s condemnation of it. New essays by Jocelyn Powell, Harriet Hawkins, Elin Diamond, Martin Price, and Laura Brown have been added."
language: English
title: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy
titlecomplete: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy (Norton Critical Editions)
genres: Classics, School, Drama, Reference, Plays, Theatre, 18th Century, Fiction, Anthologies, British Literature
ratings_count: 114
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company