Books in the English Dramatists series

A comprehensive survey of women's drama between the Renaissance and the end of the eighteenth century, assessing the plays' characteristic features and the ruptures in the text indicating the writers' precarious social and artistic position and ambiguous stances to their own creativity and sex.

This is part of a series of books that explores the work of dramatists. This book looks at Sheridan and Goldsmith's comedies, showing how they operate on a profound imaginative level. The dramatist's techniques are examined in relation to physical features of the 18th-century stage.

Examines the major plays of George Etherege and William Wycherley within the context of the cultural and historical changes that marked the early years of Charles II's reign, and addresses various issues such as marriage, manners, heroism and sovereignty that preoccupied late 17th-century Britain.