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About the Contributors viii Preface and Acknowledgements xii PART I The Drama in Context 1 1 The Post-1660 Theatres as Performance Spaces 3Edward A.. Langhans 2 Restoration Dramatic Theory and Criticism 19Paul D. Cannan 3 Theatrical Regulation during the Restoration Period 36Matthew J. Kinservik 4 Libertinism and Sexuality 53Maximillian E. Novak 5 The Restoration Actress 69Deborah Payne Fisk 6 Masculinity in Restoration Drama 92Laura J. Rosenthal 7 Images of Monarchy on the Restoration Stage 109Jessica Munns 8 Restoration Drama and Politics: An Overview 126Susan J. Owen 9 Restoration Drama and Social Class 140Aparna Dharwadker 10 Race, Performance and the Silenced Prince of Angola 161Mita Choudhury 11 Restoration Drama after the Restoration: The Critics, the Repertory and the Canon 177Brian Corman PART II Kinds of Drama 193 12 Heroic Drama and Tragicomedy 195Derek Hughes 13 Restoration Comedy 211J. Douglas Canfield 14 Tragedy and Varieties of Serious Drama 228Jean I. Marsden 15 London Theatre Music, 1660-1719 243Todd S. Gilman 16 Shakespeare and Other Adaptations 274Sandra Clark 17 Rakes, Wives and Merchants: Shifts from the Satirical to the Sentimental 291Kirk Combe PART III Dramatists 309 18 William Davenant and John Dryden 311Richard Kroll 19 'Still on the Criminal's Side, against the Innocent': Etherege, Wycherley and the Ironies of Wit 326Robert Markley 20 'Who Vices Dare Explode': Thomas Shadwell, Thomas Durfey and Didactic Drama of the Restoration 340Christopher J. Wheatley 21 Otway, Lee and the Restoration History Play 355Paulina Kewes 22 Elkanah Settle, John Crowne and Nahum Tate 378Don-John Dugas 23 Two Female Playwrights of the Restoration: Aphra Behn and Susanna Centlivre 396Cynthia Lowenthal 24 William Congreve and Thomas Southerne 412Miriam Handley 25 Sir John Vanbrugh and George Farquhar in the Post-Restoration Age 429John Bull Index 446