Behn, Oroonoko (Bedford/St. Martin’s)
Centlivre, A Bold Stroke for a Wife, ed. Copeland (Broadview)
Dryden, Marriage à la Mode (Norton/New Mermaids)
Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (Dover Thrift)
Restoration Plays, ed. Lawrence (Everyman; abbrev. “RP”
below)
Shaw, Pygmalion and My Fair Lady (Signet)
Sheridan, The School for Scandal and Other Plays (Oxford World’s
Classics)
If you already own other editions of the plays, you are welcome to use
them. Readings marked below with an asterisk are in the xeroxed course
pack, available at the English department (602 Philosophy). Multiple copies
of the course reader and the required texts are on reserve at Butler.
The London Stage, 1660-1800. 11 vols. Carbondale: Southern Illinois
UP, 1960-65.
Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, etc. Ed. Philip
J. Highfill, Jr., Kalman A. Burnim, Edward A. Langhans. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois UP, 1973-93.
Milhous, Judith and Robert D. Hume, Register of Theatrical Documents,
1660-1737. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.
Thomas, David and Arnold Hare. Restoration and Georgian England,
1660-1788. Cambridge Theatre in Europe: a documentary history series.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989.
Backscheider, Paula R. Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and
Mass Culture in Early Modern England. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP,
1993.
Braverman, Richard Lewis. Plots and Counterplots: Sexual Politics
and the Body Politic in English Literature, 1660-1730. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1993.
Brown, Laura. English Dramatic Form, 1660-1760: An Essay in Generic
History. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1981.
Canfield, J. Douglas and Deborah C. Payne, ed. Cultural Readings
of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theater. Athens and
London: U of Georgia P, 1995.
Dobson, Michael. The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation
and Authorship, 1660-1769. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992.
Fisk, Deborah Payne, ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration
Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
Franklin, Colin. Shakespeare Domesticated: The eighteenth-century
editions. Vermont: Scolar Press, 1991.
Hughes, Derek. English Drama, 1660-1700. Oxford: Clarendon,
1996.
Hume, Robert D. The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth
Century.
------. The Rakish Stage: Studies in English Drama, 1660-1800.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois UP, 1983.
------, ed. The London Theatre World, 1660-1800. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois UP, 1980.
Kavenik, Frances M. British Drama, 1660-1779: A Critical History.
New York: Twayne, 1995.
Loftis, John, Richard Southern, Marion Jones and A. H. Scouten. The
Revels History of Drama in English, vol. 5: 1660-1750. London: Methuen
& Co., 1976.
Markley, Robert. Two-Edg’d Weapons: Style and Ideology in the
Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley and Congreve. Oxford: Clarendon,
1988.
Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of Restoration Drama. A History of
Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, 1700-1750. Cambridge: Cambridge
UP, 1925.
Roach, Joseph R. The Player’s Passion: Studies in the Science
of Acting. 1985; rpt. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1993.
Staves, Susan. Players’ Scepters: Fictions of Authority in
the Restoration. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1979.
Straub, Kristina. Sexual Suspects: Eighteenth-Century Players and
Sexual Ideology. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992.
Styan, J. L. Restoration Comedy in Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge
UP, 1986.
Trussler, Simon. The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.