Beggars Opera Regents Restoration Drama_图书大全
Beggars Opera Regents Restoration Drama
ISBN: 9780713154887
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内容简介
The Regents Restoration Drama Series provides soundly edited
texts, in modern spelling, of the more significant plays of the late
seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The word "Restoration"
is here used ambiguously and must be explained. If to the historian
it refers to the period between 1660 and 1685 (or 1688), it has long
been used by the student of drama in default of a more precise word
to refer to plays belonging to the dramatic tradition established in
the 1660 s, weakening after 1700, and displaced in the 1730 s. It is in
this extended sense--imprecise though justified by academic custom
--that the word is used in this series, which includes plays first
produced between 1660 and 1737. Although these limiting dates are
determined by political events, the return of Charles II (and the
removal of prohibitions against operation of theaters) and the passage
of Walpole s Stage Licensing Act, they enclose a period of dramatic
history having a coherence of its own in the establishment, develop-
ment, and disintegration of a tradition.
