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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Addison, James. Cato (1713). [1, 2,
11,
16,
19]
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Banks, John. The Unhappy Favourite. [6, 16]
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Behn, Aphra. The Lucky Chance (1686) [16]
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Behn, Aphra. The Rover; or, The Banished Cavaliers (1677). [13,
16,
17]
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Boyle, Roger, Earl of Orrery. The Tragedy of Mustapha, the son of Solyman
the Magnificent (1665). [8]
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Boyle, Roger, Earl of Orrery. The History of Henry the Fifth (1664).
[16]
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Centlivre, Susannah. A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718). [16,
17]
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Centlivre, Susannah. The Busie Body (1709). [13,
14]
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Cibber, Colley. The Careless Husband (1704). [1]
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Cibber, Colley. Love's Last Shift (1696). [2, 13,
16]
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Cibber, Colley. The Tragical History of King Richard III (1700)
(adaptation of Shakespeare). [15]
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Colman, George. The Jealous Wife (1761). [1]
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Congreve, William. Love for Love (1695). [3, 4,
13]
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Congreve, William. The Way of the World (1700). [1,
2,
3,
9,
10,
12,
13,
16,
17]
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Cowley, Hannah. The Belle's Stratagem (1780). [14,
16]
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Crowne, John. City Politics (1683). [16]
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Crowne, John. The Destruction of Jerusalem (1677). [8]
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Cumberland, Richard. The West Indian (1771). [1,
2]
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D'Avenant, William. Macbeth (1674). (adaptation of Shakespeare)
[15]
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D'Avenant, William. The Siege of Rhodes (1656). [2]
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Dryden, John. All For Love (1677). [1, 2,
3,
6,
9,
10,
13,
16,
17,
19]
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Dryden, John. Amphitryon (1690). [16]
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Dryden, John. Aureng-Zebe (1675). [8]
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Dryden, John. The Conquest of Granada (1670). [13]
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Dryden, John, and Sir Robert Howard. The Indian Queen (1664). [2]
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Dryden, John. Marriage a-la-Mode (1673). [1, 2,
4,
5,
9,
10,
12,
16]
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Dryden, John. The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island (1674). (adaptation
of Shakespeare). [15]
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Dryden, John. Tyrannick Love; or, The Royal Martyr (1669).
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Etherege, Sir George. The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter (1676).
[1, 2, 4, 9,
13,
16,
17]
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Etherege, Sir George. She Would if She Could (1668). [5]
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Farquhar, George. The Beaux-Stratagem (1707). [1,
2,
3,
7,
9,
10,
13,
16]
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Farquhar, George. The Recruiting Officer (1706). [4,
13]
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Fielding, Henry. The Author's Farce (1730). [16]
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Fielding, Henry. The Covent-Garden Tragedy (1733). [18]
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Fielding, Henry. The Tragedy of Tragedies, or the History of Tom Thumb
the Great (1731). [1,
7,
11,
18]
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Garrick, David. The Lying Valet (1741). [1]
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Garrick, David. The Clandestine Marriage (1766). [2,
3]
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Gay, John. The Beggar's Opera (1728). [1, 2,
3,
7,
11,
16]
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Gay, John. Polly (1728). [16]
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Gay, John. Three Hours After Marriage. See Pope.
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Granville, George. The Jew of Venice (1701) (adaptation of Shakespeare)
[15]
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Griffith, Elizabeth. The Times. [14]
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Goldsmith, Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night
(1773) [1, 2, 3,
7,
11,
16]
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Home, John. Douglas (1756). [1, 2]
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Howard, Sir Robert. The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman (1665).
[16, 17]
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Howard, Sir Robert. The Great Favourite, or The Duke of Lerma (1668)
[13]
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Howard, Sir Robert, and John Dryden. The Indian Queen (1664). [2]
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Kelly, Hugh. False Delicacy (1768). [2]
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John Lacy. The Old Troop; or, Monsieur Raggou (1664). [16]
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Lee, Nathaniel. Lucius Junius Brutus (1680). [6,
13,
16]
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Lee, Nathaniel. Princess of Clèves (1682) [16]
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Lee, Nathaniel. Sophonisba, or Hannibal's Overthrow (1676). [8]
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Lee, Nathaniel. The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great
(1677). [2]
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Lillo, George. The London Merchant (1731). [1,
2,
11,
16,
17]
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Manley, Delarivier. Lucius, the First Christian King of Britain
(1717). [16]
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Moliere. The Misanthrope. (1666)
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Otway, Thomas. Venice Preserv'd (1682). [1,
2,
3,
6,
9,
10,
16,
13,
19]
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Pix, Mary. The Beau Defeated (1700). [16]
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Pix, Mary. The Innocent Mistress (1697). [14]
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Pope, Alexander, John Gay and John Arbuthnot. Three Hours After Marriage
(1717). [18]
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Rowe, Nicholas. The Fair Penitent (1703). [2, 16,
17,
19]
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Rowe, Nicholas. The Tragedy of Jane Shore (1714). [1,
11]
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Rowe, Nicholas. Tamerlane (1702). [16, 17]
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Sedley, Sir Charles. The Mulberry Garden (1668). [5]
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Settle, Elkanah. The Empress of Morocco (1673). [8]
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Shadwell, Thomas. The Squire of Alsatia (1688). [2]
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Shadwell, Thomas. A True Widow (1678). [16]
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The Critic (1779). [1]
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The Rivals (1775). [1,3,
11]
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. Saint Patrick's Day; or, the Scheming Lieutenant,
a farce in one act. (1775)
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The School for Scandal (1777) [1,
2,
3,
12,
16]
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Southerne, Thomas/ Oroonoko (1695). [16,
17,
19]
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Southerne, Thomas/ Sir Anthony Love (1690). [16]
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Steele, Richard. The Conscious Lovers (1722). [1,
2,
7,
11,
12,
16,
17]
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Tate, Nahum. The History of King Lear (1681). (adaptation of Shakespeare)
[15]
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Trotter, Catharine. Love at a Loss (1700). [16,
17]
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Tuke, Sir Samuel. The Adventures of Five Hours (1664). [13]
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Vanbrugh, John. The Provok'd Wife (1697). [3, 4,
9]
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Vanbrugh, John. The Relapse (1696). [1, 2,
5,
10,
13,
16]
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Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham, et al. The Rehearsal (1671).
[1, 2, 13]
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Wycherley, William. The Country Wife (1675). [3,
5,
9,
10,
12,
13,
16,
17]
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Wycherley, William. The Plain-Dealer (1676). [2,
4,
13]
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