The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama – Second Edition

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction

Map
Actor and Actress Biographies

William Wycherley

• The Country Wife
• Peggy Thompson, ed.

George Etherege

• The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter
• John H. O’Neill, ed.

Nathaniel Lee

• The Rival Queens; or, The Death of Alexander the Great
• David Weston, ed.

Aphra Behn

• The Rover; or, The Banished Cavaliers
• Anne Russell, ed.

John Dryden

• All for Love; or, The World Well Lost
• Tanya Caldwell, ed.

Thomas Otway

• Venice Preserved; or, A Plot Discovered
• Jessica Munns, ed.

Aphra Behn

• The Lucky Chance; or, An Alderman’s Bargain
• Lori Snook, ed.

Thomas Southerne

• Oroonoko
• Joyce Green MacDonald, ed.

Sir John Vanbrugh

• The Provoked Wife
• Diana Solomon, ed.

William Congreve

• The Way of the World
• Richard Kroll, ed.

George Farquhar

• The Beaux’ Stratagem
• Helen M. Burke, ed.

Susanna Centlivre

• A Bold Stroke for a Wife
• Nancy Copeland, ed.

John Gay

• The Beggar’s Opera
• Dianne Dugaw, ed.

George Lillo

• The London Merchant; or, The History of George Barnwell
• Lincoln Faller, ed.

From “The Ballad of George Barnwell”

David Garrick

• Miss in her Teens: or, The Medley of Lovers
• Leslie Ritchie, ed.

Richard Cumberland

• The West Indian
• Brett D. Wilson, ed.

Oliver Goldsmith

• She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night
• Richard A. Barney, ed.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

• The School for Scandal
• Mita Choudhury, ed.

Hannah Cowley

• The Belle’s Stratagem
• Linda R. Payne, ed.

Elizabeth Inchbald

• Such Things Are
• Chelsea Phillips, ed.

Appendix: Critical Texts

• 1. From John Dryden, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668)
• 2. From John Dryden, Preface to An Evening’s Love; or, The Mock Astrologer (1671)
• 3. Thomas Shadwell, Preface to The Humourists (1671)
• 4. William Congreve, “Concerning Humour in Comedy” (1695)
• 5. From Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698)
• 6. From William Congreve, Amendments of Mr. Collier’s False and Imperfect Citations (1698)
• 7. From John Vanbrugh, A Short Vindication of The Relapse and The Provoked Wife, from Immorality and Profaneness (1698)
• 8. From Richard Steele, The Spectator (1711–1714)
• 9. From John Dennis, “A Defense of Sir Fopling Flutter” (1722)
• 10. From Samuel Richardson, The Apprentice’s Vade Mecum; or, Young Man’s Pocket Companion (1734)
• 11. From Colley Cibber, An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (1740)
• 12. From John Hill, The Actor: A Treatise on the Art of Playing (1750)
• 13. From Oliver Goldsmith, “An Essay on the Theatre; or, A Comparison between Laughing and Sentimental Comedy” (1773)
• 14. From Samuel Johnson, The Lives of the Poets (1779–1781)

Glossary
Index

Online Supplement

• John Dryden
  • Marriage à la Mode
  • Brian Corman, ed.
• Colley Cibber
  • Love’s Last Shift; or, The Fool in Fashion
  • Gary A. Richardson, ed.
• John Vanbrugh
  • The Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger, Being the Sequel of The Fool in Fashion
  • James E. Gill, ed.
• Mary Pix
  • The Beau Defeated; or, The Lucky Younger Brother
  • Elizabeth Kubek, ed.
• Nicholas Rowe
  • The Fair Penitent
  • Jean I. Marsden, ed.
• Richard Steele
  • The Conscious Lovers
  • Lisa A. Freeman, ed.
• Henry Fielding
  • The Author’s Farce
  • Jill Campbell, ed.