Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Introduction: Performing Drama, Performing Culture
Theatrical Biographies
Restoring the Theatre: 1660-1700
John Dryden and William Davenant, The Enchanted Island or The Tempest
William Wycherley, The Country Wife
George Etherege, The Man of Mode
John Dryden, All For Love
Aphra Behn, The Widdow Ranter
John Van Brugh, The Relapse
Managing Entertainment, 1700-1760
William Congreve, The Way of the World
Susanna Centlivre, The Busie Body
John Rich, The Necromancer, or Harlequin Doctor Faustus and John Thurmond, Harlequin Doctor Faustus
John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera
Henry Fielding, The Author’s Farce
George Lillo, The London Merchant
Samuel Foote, The Minor (1760)
Entertainment in an Age of Revolutions, 1760-1800
David Garrick, The Jubilee
Richard Cumberland, The West Indian
Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal
Hannah Cowley, The Belle’s Stratagem
George Colman, Inkle and Yarico
Elizabeth Inchbald, Everyone Has His Fault