Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.

The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvi

An annotated collection of more than 300 unusually interesting and detailed passages includes views by observers from ancient Greece to modern times on acting,

One-stop resource offering complete textbook for courses in seventeenth-century literature - progressing from introductory topics through to overviews of curren