British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan
“British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheri­dan first appeared in 1939as the culmina­ting work of two well-known scholars of an earlier generation, George H. Nettleton of Yale and Arthur E. Case of Northwestern. The twenty-four plays that it contained made it more inclusive than any rival anthol­ogy, just as the painstaking care with which these texts were presented made it more reliable. . . . The reader now has before him ‘Nettleton, Case, and Stone,’ with the familiar twenty-four plays, but with a new preliminary essay describing the theatres, methods of play production, acting styles, and audiences of the Restoration and eight­eenth century; rewritten introductions and headnotes taking full notice of recent schol­arship and criticism; and a classified and an­notated bibliography.”—From Gordon Ray’s Preface to the Second Edition.“Well annotated, up-to-date, and a very val­uable anthology.”—Johnsonian Newsletter