TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hume,Robert D.‏
TI  - The development of English drama in the late seventeenth century
SN  - 9780198117995
U1  - 822.409 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
KW  - English drama
KW  - Restoration, 1660-1700
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - HHUUEENN
KW  - August 2016	
KW  - November2016
KW  - Reading book
N1  - Reprint of the 1976 ed; Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1 The dramatic types in theory and practice; What is "restoration" drama -- Theories of comedy -- The nature of the comic drama -- Theories of serious drama -- The varieties of serious drama -- Part 2 The development of the play types 1660-1710; The establishment of Carolean drama 1660-1669 -- Sex, horror, farce, and the heroic inclination in the 70s -- The political 80s -- The double tradition of the 90s --  The emergence of Augustan drama 1697-1710
N2  - A full scale account of Restoration drama, following the changing patterns of drama decade by decade from 1660 to 1710. The author explores the diversity of the plays, carrying out a detailed survey of some 500 of them
ER  -