Restoration Drama

The Restoration theatre is famous for its wit and sexual daring but its complexity and range have been undervalued. The dramatists confronted one of the most politically unstable periods in British history, while the advent of professional actresses and women playwrights permanently changed the theatre's depiction of desire.'

'As well as discussing familiar authors such as William Wycherley, Aphra Benn and William Congreve, this book also considers several neglected dramatists whose plays defy easy classification. Together these writers embraced subjects as diverse as political authority, colonialism, social identity, sexual transgression and the nature of language. In doing so they created a new kind of theatre.

About the author:

Sean Elliott gained his PhD from Goldsmiths College. He teaches at Birbeck, University of London and for the Open University. His poetry collection, Waterhouse and the Tempest, was published in 2009. He is currently writing a study of Richard Brinsley Sheridan for Greenwich Exchange and working on his second book of poems.

90  pages

ISBN: 978-1-906075-79-8