English 3236
Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama and Theatre

The listed books are all available from the library; the call number is in brackets. If there is no call number it's a personal copy, on reserve.

The Anthologies

1. British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan. Edited by George H. Nettleton and Arthur E. Case. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939. [PR1265.B74 1939]

2. 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]

3. Twelve Famous Plays of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. Introduction by Professor Cecil A. Moore. New York: Modern Library, 1933. [PR1265.T8]

4. Five Restoration Comedies. Introduced by Brian Gibbons. London: A. & C. Black, 1984. [PR1266 .F58 1984]

5. Restoration Comedies. Edited with an introduction by Dennis Davison. London: Oxford University Press, 1970. [PR1266.D3]

6. Restoration Tragedies. Edited with an introduction by James Sutherland. London: Oxford University Press, 1977. [PR1265.3 R4]

7. Eighteenth Century Comedy. Selected and introduced by W. D. Taylor. London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. [PR1269.T3 1969]

8. Five Heroic Plays. Edited by Bonamy Dobrée. London : Oxford University Press, 1960. [PR1266 .D58]

9. Restoration Plays from Dryden to Farquhar. Edited by Sir Edmund William Gosse. London: J. M. Dent & sons, ltd.; New York: E. P. Dutton & co., inc. 1932 [PR1266 1932]

10. Restoration Plays. With an introduction by Brice Harris. New York: Modern Library, 1953. [Reserve]

11. Eighteenth-Century Plays. With an introduction by Ricardo Quintana. New York: Modern Library, 1952. [Reserve]

12. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy. Ed. Scott McMillin. New York: Norton, 1973. [Reserve]

13. Restoration Drama: An Anthology. Ed. David Womersley. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. [Reserve]

14. Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists. Ed. Melinda Finberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. [PR1269 .E358 2001 ]

15. Five Restoration Adaptations of Shakespeare. Edited with an introd. by Christopher Spencer. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1965. [PR2877 .S63]

16. The Broadview Anthology of Restoration & Early Eighteenth-Century Drama. Ed. J. Douglas Canfield. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2001. [Reserve]

17. The Broadview Anthology of Restoration & Early Eighteenth-Century Drama. Concise Edition. Ed. J. Douglas Canfield. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2003. [Reserve]

18. Burlesque Plays of the Eighteenth Century. Edited with introductions and notes by Simon Trussler. London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. [PR1269 .T7]

19. Five Restoration Tragedies. Edited by Bonamy Dobrée. London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1928 [PR1266 .D631]

The Plays

I've indicated, for convenience of locating them, which plays are in which books (there are numbers after each play title, corresponding with -- and linked to -- the relevant anthology).



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