Perspectives on Restoration drama
This introduction to the drama which followed the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 includes representative coverage of both the new forms in this period, and of ways in which the old forms altered, including heroic drama, comedy, tragedy, tragi-comedy and adaptations of Shakespeare.
Manchester : Manchester University press ; 2002. 198 p. ; 22 cm.
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Herioc Tragi-comedy - John Dryden's "The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards", Parts I & II; Comedy I - William Wycherley's "The Country Wife"; Comedy II - Aphra Behn's "The Rover or, the Banisht Cavaliers"; Tragedy I - Nathaniel Lee's "Lucius Junius Brutus"; Tragedy II - Thomas Otway's "Venice Preserv'd"; Shakesperare Adapted - John Dryden's "Troilus and Cressida".