Texts

There are an amazing number of online versions of the text available through the library and on the Web. Some, like the online Google Books one, are scans of one of the original editions, and almost unreadable. There's an online version of the Edward Arber reprint from 1868 which is a bit more readable; click here http://tinyurl.com/cvj3jlk to download it.

There are also these print versions:

• The Rehearsal, edited by Edward Arber. The English Reprint series, 1868, reprinted in 1966. [PR3328 .B5 A7 1966]
• British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan. Edited by George H. Nettleton and Arthur E. Case. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939. [PR1265.B74 1939]
• Plays of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century as They Were Acted at the Theatres-Royal by Their Majesties' Servants. Edited by Dougald MacMillan and Howard Mumford Jones. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1931. [PR1265.M3 1959]
• Restoration Drama: An Anthology. Ed. David Womersley. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. [Reserve]

• The Rehearsal, ed. Montague Summers. Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1914.
• The Rehearsal and The Critic: the Two Famous Theatrical Burlesques. Great Neck, New York: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 1960.

To make the keeping and reading of reading journals work a bit better, let's try this. I've set up a Forum by act and scene. As you read, keep your journal as you usually would, but this time post reflections under the appropriate act and scene number. I'd keep it for an act or so at a time, and then post sections to the Forum -- at any rate, that's what I'm going to try to do. I think everybody should be able to read the whole thing by Wednesday morning, but in any case post journal entries as far as you can get by then.

Bear in mind that one of the most useful responses you can make is a question or an expression of puzzlement; reflections on what you're expecting to come next are also useful (as, of course, is noting things you've just come to understand as you read).