Restoration Plays and Players
Subtitle: An Introduction
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 22, 2014
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781107617971
Description: "Introducing readers to the key texts, theatrical practice and context of late seventeenth-century drama, David Roberts combines literary and theatrical approaches to show how Restoration plays were written, performed, received, and printed. Structured according to the 'life cycle' of the dramatic text, this book reproduces extracts from twenty-four of the most influential Restoration plays to provide readers with a comprehensive and colourful introduction to the period's drama. Roberts encourages readers to look beyond a limited canon of established plays and practice, and to see how Restoration drama has been revived and adapted on the modern stage and on screen. Restoration Plays and Players is of great interest to undergraduate and non-specialist readers of seventeenth-century drama, Restoration literature and theatre studies"--
Notes: Source title: Restoration Plays and Players: An Introduction