The rakish stage
Subtitle: studies in English drama, 1660-1800
By: Robert D. Hume.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English drama -- Restoration, 1660-1700 -- History and criticism; English drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Content and meaning in the drama; title: Restoration comedy and its audiences, 1660-1776 / Arthur H. Scouten and Robert D. Hume; title: Otway and the comic muse; title: The satiric design of Nat. Lee's The Princess of Cleve; title: The myth of the rake in Restoration comedy; title: Marital discord in English comedy from Dryden to Fielding; title: The multifarious forms of eighteenth-century comedy; title: The world is all alike; title: The London theatre from The beggar's opera to the Licensing Act; title: Goldsmith and Sheridan and the supposed revolution of laughing against sentimental comedy.