RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY COMEDY

This is a new edition of this work, including the five plays of the first edition, "The Country Wife", "The Man of Mode", "The Way of the World", The Conscious Lovers" and "The School for Scandal", as well as "The Rover" by Aphra Behn. The book underlines the relationship between theatre and society in the plays. The criticism section has been revised to reflect recent approaches in scholarly interpretation.