The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre
- ISBN-10
- 052158812X
- ISBN-13
- 9780521588126
- Category
- Drama
- Pages
- 294
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-05-11
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Deborah Payne Fisk
Description
Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.
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