ENG 579 Dr. Morillo

Research Resources for Restoration & 18th-C Drama

 

MLA International Bibliography

 

C18-L Selected Readings Database

 

English Short Title Catalog

 

Restoration and 18th-Century Theater Research

Eighteenth-Century Life

Eighteenth-Century Studies

 

 

Burns, Edward. Restoration Comedy: Crises of Desire and Identity. New York: St Martins, 1087.

 

Canfield, Douglas. Tricksters and Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy. Lexington: Kentucky UP, 1997.

 

Copeland, Nancy. Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre: Women's Comedy in the Theatre. Vermont: Ashgate, 2004.

 

Dobree, Bonamy. Restoration Tragedy: 1660-1720. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1954.

 

Frisk, Deborah, ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theater. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 200.

 

Holmes, Geoffrey. Politics, Religion, and Society in England 1679-1742. London: Hambledon, 1986.

 

Hughes, Derek. The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004.

 

Kreis-Schink, Annette. Women, Writing, and the Theater in the Early Modern Period: The Plays of Aphra Behn and Suzanna Centlivre. Cranbury: Associated UP, 2001.

 

Markley, Robert. Two-Edg'd Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Ethredge, Whycherley, and Congreve. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1996.

 

Owen, Susan. Restoration Theater in Crisis. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1986.

 

---., ed.  A Companion to Restoration Drama. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.

 

---. Perspectives on Restoration Drama. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2002.

 

Pearson, Jacqueline. The Prostituted Muse: Images of Women and Women Dramatists 1642-1737. New York: St. Martins, 1988.

 

Picard, Liza. Restoration London. New York: St. Martins, 1998.

 

Staves, Susan. Players' Scepters: Fictions of Authority in the Restoration. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1979.

 

Todd, Janet. Aphra Behn. New York: St Martins, 1999.

 

----.  The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing, and Fiction, 1660-1800. New York: Columbia UP, 1989.

 

Turner, James. Schooling Sex: Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and Egnland, 1534-1685. NY: Oxford UP, 2003.

Wall, Cynthia, ed.  A Concise Companion to the Restoration and 18th Century. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

 

Weber, Harold. The Restoration Rake-Hero. Madison: Wisconsin UP, 1986.

 

Womersley, David, Paddy Bullard and Abigail Williams. "Cultures of Whiggism": New Essays on English Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2005.

 

Young, Douglas. The Feminist Voices in Restoration Comedy: The Virtuous Women in the Play-Worlds of Etheridge, Wycherley and Congreve. Lanham: U Press of America, 1997.