Comprehensive Index: Second Series (1986-present)
Volume 25, Issue 1 (Summer 2010)
Articles:
Balloon and Seraglio:
Burkean Anti-Capitol Imperialism in Elizabeth Inchbald's The Mogul Tale
by Katherine Green
Abject, Delude, Create:
The Aesthetic Self-Consciousness of Early Eighteenth-Century Farce
by Tonya Howe
Satanic Barnwell and Evian Millwood:
Allusions to Paradise Lost in Lillo's The London Merchant
by Patrick J. McGrath
"The shame of this pacific reign":
Engagement with the past and domestic tragedy during the 1730s
by Jem Bloomfield
Theatre Reviews:
"A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs"
The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Directed by Peter Hall
by Penny Richards & Neil Richards
Wild Oats by John O'Keeffe at The Blackfriars Playhouse
Directed by Jim Warren
by Antonia Forester
Book Reviews:
Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century
Edited by Peter Sabor and Paul Yachnin
by Judith W. Fischer
Heroic Mode and Political Crisis:
The Performance of Power in the Kingdom of Ireland 1662-1692
by Patrick Tuite
by Helen Burke
Rival Queens:
Actresses, Perfomance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theatre
by Felicity Nussbaum
Lora Geriguis
Theatrical Nation:
Jews and Other Outlandish English in Georgian Briatain
by Michael Regussis
by Aparna Gollapudi
Volume 24, Issue 2 (Winter 2009)
Articles:
Ludere Cum Sacris: Methodism, Mimicry, and Samuel Foote's The Minor
by Brett C. McInelly
"Oh The Roast Beef of England!" An Examination of Fielding's Theatrical Method
by Melissa Bloom Bissonette
The Demise of Sentimental Comedy: A Case of Penitent Art?
by Christopher Brooks
"I Greedily Resign!" Lucius Junius Brutus as Queer Transcultural Object
by Kristin Hunt
Notes
First Impressions: Adapting Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice
by Simon Reade
Theatre Review:
Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice,Adapted for the Stage by Simon Reade
by Julia Gasper
Book Reviews:
Women, Medicine & Theatre 1500-1750: Literary Mountebanks & Performing Quacks by M. A. Katritzky
by Gillian Manning
Spectacular Flirtations by Gerry Perry and The Incomparable Hester Santlow: A Dancer-Actress on the Georgian Stage by Moira Gaff
by Jessica Munns & Penny Richards
The Basset Table by Susanna Centlivre
by Jennifer Golightly
Volume 24, Issue 1 (Summer 2009)
Articles:
"Contemporary Popular Reception of Shadwell’s A True Widow"
by Peter Craft
"Nahum Tate’s The History of King Richard the Second (1681): Politics and Censorship during the Exclusion Crisis"
by Leticia Álvarez-Recio
"Monarchs, Morality and English Nationalism in the Comedies of Etherege, Steele, and Sheridan"
by Lora Geriguis
"'Decencies of Behavior': Dryden and the Libertines in Marriage A-la-Mode"
by Laura Linker
Theatre Reviews
Scapin by Moliere, Directed by Aaron Cromie
by Doreen Alvarez Saar
Or, by Liz Duffy Adams, Directed by Wendy McLellan
by Mary Ann O'Donnell
Book Reviews
Women's Theatrical Memoirs, Part II, Volumes 6-10, Edited by Sue McPerson, Sharon M. Setzer, and Julia Swindells
by Jennie MacDonald
Women, Sociability and Theatre in Georgian London, by Gillian Russell
by Jessica Munns
Comic Print and Theatre in Early Modern Amsterdam: Gender, Childhood and the City,
by Angela Vanhaelenby Timothy De Paepe
Aphra Behn Stages the Social Scene in Restoration Theatre,
by Dawn Lewcockby Bill Blake
Volume 23, Issue 2 (Winter 2008)
Articles:
"Un des plus jolis Théâtres hors de l’Italie & point de spectacle": The Design and Construction of the First Proper Theatre in Antwerp
by Timothy De Paepe
"Seated in the Heart": Venice Preserv’d Between Pathos and Politics
by Zenón Luis-Martínez
Whitening the Moor of Venice in Late Eighteenth-Century Performance
by Robin Runia
The Witlings: Frances Burney’s "Essay on Criticism"?
by J. Karen Ray
Book Reviews:
Peter Thomson. The Cambridge Introduction to English Theatre, 1660-1900
by Jennie MacDonald
Sandro Jung. David Mallet, Anglo-Scot: Poetry, Patronage, and Politics in the Age of Union
by Jennifer Golightly
Susanne Kord. Little Detours: The Letters and Plays of Luise Gottsched
by Christine Emmert
Volume 23, Issue 1 (Summer 2008)
Articles:
David Garrick‘s Invisible Nemeses
by John Pruitt
Enchanting Evil: English Romantic Criticism on Edmund Kean‘s Interpretation of Richard III and Schiller‘s Theory on the Immoral Characters in Art
by Ioanna Papageorgiou
"Too High for Souls like Mine to Hide": Feminine Retreat and Exposure in Aphra Behn‘s The Feign’d Curtizans
by Karol Cooper
Pathos and Politics in John Banks' Vertue Betray’d, or Anna Bullen (1682)
by Tracey Miller-Tomlinson
The Hobbesian Other in Congreve‘s Comedies
by Aspasia Velissariou
Book Reviews:
Michael J. Sosulski. Theater and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Germany
by Brian Bates
Vanessa Cunningham. Shakespeare and Garrick and Ian Woodfield: Opera and Drama in Eighteenth-Century London
by Christine Emmert
Richard Kroll. Restoration Drama and "The Circle of Commerce"
by Anne Greenfield
Sharon Setzer, Ed. Women’s Theatrical Memoirs, Part One, Vol. 1-5
by Jessica Munns
Jeffrey Kahan. The Cult of Kean
by Francesca Saggini
Theatre Notes:
Joanna Baillie‘s Witchcraft at the Finborough Theatre
by Deirdre Gilbert
Volume 22, Issues 1 and 2 (Double Issue, Summer/Winter 2007)
Articles:
Thomas Otway and the Duke’s Company: Playing for Laughter and Spectacle?
by Rafael Portillo
“[A]ll false from the Bawd to the Babe”:Female Dissimulation and Metadrama in the Comedies of Thomas Otway
by Nicole Stodard
“The Truth disguis’d in Obscure Contraries”: Otway’s “Message” in Don Carlos
by María Isabel Calderón-López
“By the fury in your eyes”: The Blurred Vision of Kingship in Otway’s Don Carlos
by Lisanna Calvi
Unhappy Families: The Family and the State in Otway, Lee, Filmer, and Dryden
by Warren Chernaik
Rewriting Heroic Tragedy: Samuel Derrick’s Remarks on Venice Preserv’d
by Sandro Jung
“The most valued things have most alloys”: Thomas Otway’s Venice Preserv’d
by Åke Eriksson
The Double Standard of Honesty in Venice Preserv'd
by Sarah McCollum
Preserving Venice? Teaching Otway in the 21st Century
by Elisabeth J. Heard
Book Reviews:
David Worrall. Theatric Revolution: Drama, Censorship, and Romantic Period Subcultures 1773-1832
by Benjamin Kim
Anonymous: The Woman Turned Bully
by Jennifer Golightly
Theatre Notes:
Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko at The Duke’s Theatre for a New Audience
by Mary Ann O'Donnell
Moliere’s Le Misanthrope at the Salle Richelieu, Comédie Françaiseby Jessica Munns
Volume 21, Issue 2 (Winter 2006)
The Passionate Word: Temporality and Rhetoric in All for Love
by Jason Denman
The Story of Mustapha in History and Drama, 1588-1739
by Sarah Jayne Hitt
“Rouse up your self, and bear you like a Man”: Masculine Anxiety and the Body in Delariviere Manley’s The Royal Mischief
by Misty Krueger
When Sultan Becomes Rapist: The Politics of Rape in Orientalist Tragedy
by Anne Greenfield
A Gotham Election: Women and Performance Politics
by Jane Milling
Book Review:
Kirsten Shepherd-Barr. Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen
by Casey Rountree
Theatre Notes:
1001 at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts
by David Fenerty
Restoration Comedy at the Old Globe Theatre
by Cecilia J. Pang
Interview:
A Dialogue with a Dandy
by Cecilia J. Pang
Volume 21, Issue 1 (Summer 2006)
Actor and/or Manager? David Garrick Off Stage
by Judith W. Fisher
Dueling Prefaces, Pamphlets, and Prologues: Re-visioning the Political and Personal Wars of John Dryden and Thomas Shadwell
by Judith Bailey Slagle
Book Reviews:
Barbara A. Murray (ed). Shakespeare Adaptations from the Restoration Five Plays
by Christopher J. Wheatley
Jennifer Wise and Craig S. Walker (eds). The Broadview Anthology of Drama: Plays from the Western Theatre, Volumes 1 & 2
by Simon Barker
Marta Straznicky. Privacy, Playreading and Women’s Closet Drama, 1550-1700
by Simon Barker
by Maureen Mulvihill
J. Douglas Canfield (ed.). The Broadview Anthology of Restoration & Early Eighteenth-Century Drama (Concise Edition)
by Jennie MacDonald
Theatre Notes:
The Man of Mode at the National Theatre
by Gillian Manning
The Soldier’s Fortune at The Young Vic Theatre
by Penny Richards
Amadeus at the Denver Center Theatre Company
by Cecilia J. Pang
Volume 20, Issues 1 and 2 (Double Issue, Summer/Winter 2005)
Re-ordering a Formative Hierarchy: Hannah Cowley’s Comedies of Manners
by Jack DeRochi
Lady Randolph, The “Monument of Woe”: Love and Loss in John Home’s Douglas
by Sandro Jung
“If the informing spirit be mine”: Frances Anne Kemble and Theory in Rehearsal
by Catherine Burroughs
“But where am I ?”: Coriolan by J. M. R. Lenz
by Margot Paterson
The Belle’s Stratagem: Looking Before and After
by Murray Biggs
That Homo-geneous Thing, an Englishman
by Deirdre Gilbert
Orsino’s “Solemn Comedy” and Shelley’s “Tragedy” The Cenci
by Candy Schille
The Imperial Project: Resistance and Revolution in Hannah Cowley’s Oriental Musical Comedy
by Angela Escott
Theatre Notes:
The [very different] Barber of Seville at the Main House, Bristol Old Vic
by Jessica Munns
Review:
Joseph Donohue (ed.), The Cambridge History of British Theatre, Volume 2: 1660-1895;
John Richetti (ed.), The Cambridge History of British Literature, 1660-1780
by Jennifer Golightly
Volume 19, Issue 2 (Winter 2004)
Articles:
The Devolution of The Alchemist: Garrick, Gentleman, and “Genteel Comedy”
by Raphael Shargel
The Actor as Archeologist: Aspects of the Dramaturgy of the Restoration Stage Rediscovered in Performance
by Joel D. Eis and Stephen Earnest
Reviews:
John A. Rice’s Empress Marie Therese and Music at the Viennese Court
by William Stafford
Silvana D’Alessio’s Contagi La Rivolta Napoletana del 1647-48: Linguaggio e Potere Politico
by Angela S.N. Polidori
Tita Chico’s Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture;
Kirsten Pullen’s Actresses and Whores: On Stage and in Society
by Katie Ahearn
Katie Aughterson’s Aphra Behn: The Comedies; Annette Kreis-Schinck’s Women, Writing, and the Theater in the Early Modern Period: The Plays of Aphra Behn and Suzanne Centlivre
by Casey Rountree
Volume 19, Issue 1 (Summer 2004)
Articles:
Seeing is Believing: Performing Reform in Colley Cibber’s Love’s Last Shift
by Aparna Gollapudi
“Thou’rt the man”: David Garrick, William Shakespeare, and the Masculinization of the Eighteenth-Century Stage
by Charles Conaway
Memories Beyond the Pale: The Eighteenth-Century Actress Between Stage and Closet
by Francesca Saggini
Theatre Notes:
The Name of the Poet Is Brandes
by Margot Paterson
Reviews:
Barbara A. Murray’s Restoration Shakespeare: Viewing the Voice
by Jean Marsden
Nancy Copeland’s Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre: Women’s Comedy and the Theatre
by Helen Burke
Annibel Jenkins’s I’ll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth Inchbald
by Jennifer Golightly
Paul M. S. Hopkins (ed.), The Adventures of Sir Samuel Tuke: Full Authentic Text of Tuke’s Play and Suggestions for Staging The Adventures of Five Hours;
Claude Rawson and Aaron Santesso (eds.), John Dryden (1631-1700): His Politics, His Plays, and His Poets: A Tercentenary Celebration Held at Yale University
by Carolyn D. Williams
Volume 18, Issue 2 (Winter 2003)
Articles:
The Stranger Next Door: Identity and Diversity on the Late Eighteenth-Century Stage
by Francesca Saggini
(Re)Valuing the “Foreign Trinket”: Sentimentalizing the Language of Economics in Steele’s Conscious Lovers
by Nicole Horejsi
Reviews:
Ina Habermann’s Staging Slander and Gender in Early Modern England
by Linda Bensel-Meyers
Christopher Wheatley and Kevin Donovan (eds.), Irish Drama of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries;
Helen M. Burke’s Riotous Performances: The Struggle for Hegemony in the Irish Theater, 1712-1784
by Maureen E. Mulvihill
Matthew J. Kinservik’s Disciplining Satire: The Censorship of Satiric Comedy on the Eighteenth-Century London Stage
by Chris Sweeney
Theatre Notes:
Molière’s The Misanthrope at the Denver Center Theatre Company
by Jessica Munns
Volume 18, Issue 1 (Summer 2003)
Articles:
Feminine Conduct and Violence in Mary Pix’s She-Tragedies
by Margo Collins
Libertine Gamblers in Late Stuart Comedy
by James E. Evans
Now, Cato: Addison, Gender, and Cultural Occasion
by Candy B. K. Schille
Reviews:
Barbara A. Murray’s Restoration Shakespeare: Viewing the Voice
by Katherine West Scheil
Cynthia Lowenthal’s Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage
by Patsy S. Fowler
Peter Thomson’s On Actors and Acting
by Cecilia J. Pang
Paul Hammond’s Figuring Sex Between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester
by Robert S. Sturges
The Eden Plot Reprised: Paradise Lost at the Bristol Old Vic
by Gillian Manning
Volume 17, Issues 1 and 2 (Double Issue, Summer/Winter 2002)
Articles:
Catholic Conspirators in English Comedy of the Glorious Revolution
by J. Douglas Canfield
In Memoriam: J. Douglas Canfield
by Christopher J. Wheatley
Masaniello’s Revolt: A “Remedy” for the English Body Politic
by Silvana D’ Alessio
The Female Libertine of Sentiment: Elizabeth Cooper’s The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine
by Tiffany Potter
Love and Honour in James Thomson’s Tancred and Sigismunda (1745)
by Sandro Jung
Removing the Romantic Rubric: The Dramatic Sameness of Sheridan and Coleridge
by Jack DeRochi
Theatre Notes:
Attributions and Misattributions to Edward Phillips
by Yvonne Noble
The Restoration Comedy Project (University of Seville)
by Juan Antonio Prieto-Pablos
Reviews:
Richard W. Schoch’s Not Shakespeare: Bardolatry and Burlesque in the Nineteenth Century
by Simon Dentith
Jeffrey N. Cox and Michael Gamer (eds.), The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama
by Jack DeRochi
Richard J. Dircks’s The Memoirs of Richard Cumberland: Two Volumes in One
by Michael Burden
John Lennard and Mary Luckhurst’s The Drama Handbook: A Guide to Reading Plays; Mick Wallis and Simon Shepherd’s Studying Plays
by W. Scott Howard
Katherine West Scheil’s The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theatre (sic)
by Michael Dobson
Derek Hughes’s The Theatre of Aphra Behn
by Stephanie Hodgson Wright
Susan J. Owen’s Perspectives on Restoration Drama
by Carolyn D. Williams
Donald Burrows and Rosemary Dunhill (eds.), Music and Theatre in Handel’s World: The Family Papers of James Harris, 1732-1780
by Thomas McGeary
Claire Harmon’s Fanny Burney: A Biography
by Barbara Mackey
Volume 16, Issue 2 (Winter 2001)
Articles:
In Memoriam: Douglas H. White
by Thomas Kamiski
The Shameful Allure of Sycorax and Wowski: Dramatic Precursors of Sartje, the Hottentot Venus
by Susan B. Iwanisziw
Breaking the Confining Silence: Unstable Valences and Language in Aphra Behn’s The Rover
by Cynthia Caywood and Bonnie A. Hain
Dryden and Purcell’s King Arthur: A Production History
by Jaime J. Weinman
Women at Stake: The Self-Assertive Potential of Gambling in Susanna Centlivre’s The Basset Table
by Antonella Rigamonti and Laura Favero Carraro
Reviews:
Mita Choudhury’s Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660-1800: Identity, Performance, Empire
by Peter Childs
Jane Spencer’s Aphra Behn’s Afterlife
by Brian Corman
Julia Swindells’s Glorious Causes: The Grand Theatre of Political Change, 1789-1833
by Simon Dentith
Bridget Orr’s Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714;
Heidi Hutner’s Colonial Women: Race and Culture in Stuart Drama
by Susan B. Iwanisziw
Suzanne J. Beicken (trans. and ed.), Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller
by Thomas McGeary
J. Douglas Canfield’s Tricksters and Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy and Heroes and States: On the Ideology of Restoration Tragedy
by Helen Burke
J. Douglas Canfield (gen. ed.), Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama
by Gillian Manning
Theatre Notes:
The Reverend Mr. James Woodforde and the Norwich Theatre
by Arthur Sherbo
J.M.R. Lenz and the Baltic Exchange
by Margo Paterson
The Basset Table in Performance
by Kate D. Levin
Volume 16, Issue 1 (Summer 2001)
Articles:
Charles Coffey and John Mottley: An Odd Couple in Grub Street
by Yvonne Noble
Aphra Behn, Mary Pix, and the Sexual Politics of Primogeniture
by Michael Austin
“Steal[ing] out o’ th’ old plays” in John Lacy’s Sauny the Scott: OR, The Taming of the Shrew
by Pascale Aebischer
Joanna Baillie, Passionate Anatomist: Basil and Its Masquerade
by Dierdre Gilbert
Reviews:
Judith Bailey Slagle (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie
by Deirdre Giblert
Peter Duthie (ed.), Joanna Baillie’s Plays on the Passions
by Judith Bailey Slagle
Laura J. Rosenthal’s Playwrights and Plagiarists in Early Modern England;
Paulina Lewes’s Authorship and Appropriation;
Julie Stone Peters’s Theatre of the Book: 1480-1880
by Brian Bates
The Summer Season 2001 at the Swan Theatre
by Jessica Munns
Nicholas Fisher (ed.), That Second Bottle: Essays on John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
by Stephanie Hodgson-Wright
Volume 15, Issue 2 (Winter 2000)
Articles:
Sheridan and the Legacy of His Irish Parents
by James Morwood
A Satire on the Opening of the Haymarket Theatre
by Thomas McGeary
Isaac Read’s Diaries and the Theatrical Scene in Eighteenth-Century England
by Arthur Sherbo (sic)
Textual Variants and Inconsistencies in Susanna Centlivre’s The Basset-Table (1705)
by Jacqueline Pearson
A Trip to Scarborough: Or How “To Undergo a Bungling Reformation”
by Aspasia Velissariou
Male Coquettes and Fribbling Beaux: The Representation of Effeminate Fops on the Mid-Eighteenth Century English Stage
by Marc Martinez
Susanna Centlivre’s The Beau’s Duel, the Masculine Ideal, and the Anti-Dueling Sentiment of the Early Eighteenth-Century Stage
by Kevin J. Gardner
Volume 15, Issue 1 (Summer 2000)
Articles:
Spectacle in The Way of the World
by Leon Coburn and Timothy Erwin
The Way of the Postmodern World: Thoughts on the Staging of The Way of the World
by William J. Burling
Music and Meaning in Congreve’s The Way of the World
by Katheryn Lowerre
Volume 14, Issue 2 (Winter 1999)
Articles:
Beyond Bombast: David Garrick’s Performances of Benedick and King Lear
by Jane Freeman
Echoes of the Masque: The Physical Aspects of Etherege’s The Man of Mode
by Todd A. Alexander
Tactical Victory: Dryden’s Essay of Dramatic Poesy and the Battle of Lowestoft
by Daniel J. Ennis
“My Eyes Pleasure to Behold Thee”: Spectatorship and the Mastery of Passion in The Fair Penitent
by Shaun M. Strohmer
Volume 14, Issue 1 (Summer 1999)
Articles:
Reviving Aphra Behn: The Rover in the “Restoration” Repertoire
by Nancy Copeland
“The Quality of Mercy” in the Eighteenth Century; or, Kitty Clive’s Portia
by Judith Fisher
The Subject in the House: Aphra Behn’s The Forc’d Marriage, or the Jealous Bridegroom
by Judy A. Hayden
Isaac Reed’s Diaries and the Theatrical Scene in Eighteenth-Century England
by Arthur Sherbo
Friendly Fire: The Oxymoron of Authority in Catherine Trotter’s Love at a Loss
by J. Karen Ray
Volume 13, Issue 2 (Winter 1998)
Articles:
Goldsmith’s Honeywood and the Limits of Character Incoherence
by Richard B. Wolf
David Garrick and the Marriage Habitus: The Clandestine Marriage Revisited
by Katherine S. Green
Prostitution as Class Prophylactic in George Lillo’s Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Pericles as Marina
by J. Douglas Canfield
Nicholas Rowe’s The Tragedy of Jane Shore Gives Actresses a Hamlet of Their Own
by Amy M. Muse
Volume 13, Issue 1 (Summer 1998)
Articles:
“Tuneful Monsters”: The Castrati and the London Operatic Public 1667-1737
by Xavier Cervantes
Sexuality and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century England: “Mutual Love from Pole to Pole” in The London Merchant
by Lee Morrissey
Restoration Theories of Confessional Theater: Rymer, Collier, Congreve
by James Norton
“The Ordinary Course of Nature”: Authority in the Restoration Tempest
by John Bishop
Reviews:
Katherine M. Quinsey (ed.), Broken Boundaries: Women and Feminism in Restoration Drama
by Cynthia Caywood and Barbara Makey
Volume 12, Issue 2 (Winter 1997)
Articles:
The Fun Never Stops: Young Tom Fashion’s Role in Sir John Vanbrugh’s The Relapse
by Robert Eggleston
“Strange Animation and Vigour”: Self-Representation in Frances Burney’s The Witlings
by Peggy Thompson
Rape, Patriarchy, and the Libertine Ethos: The Function of Sexual Violence in Aphra Behn’s “The Golden Age” and The Rover, Part I
by Ann Marie Stewart
Etherege’s She Would if She Could: Rereading the Libertines
by B.A. Kachur
“Stand, Sir, and Deliver Up Your Muse”: Some Observations on John Dryden’s Albumazar Prologue and the Decorum of Poetic Appropriations in the “Early Augustan Battleground”
by Robert L. Mack
Theatre Notes:
A Performance of Sir John Vanbrugh’s The Provok’d Wife by the Peter Hall Company at the Old Vic, London, July 1997
by Verna A. Foster
Review:
Laurence Bartlett’s William Congreve: An Annotated Bibliography, 1978-1994
by Timothy J. Viator
Volume 12, Issue 1 (Summer 1997)
Articles:
A Sentimental Appeal to Reason: The London Merchant
by Klaus Stierstorfer
Restoration Drama in the Public Sphere: Propaganda, the Playhouse, and Published Drama
by Dorothy Turner
“Downy Lawns of Fruitful Bliss”: Marriage in Colley Cibber’s Original Comedies
by Diane Harris
Reviews:
Jessica Munns’s Restoration Politics and Drama: The Plays of Thomas Otway
by Brian Corman
Derek Hughes’s English Drama: 1660-1700
by Robert F. Bode
W.R. Owens and Lizbeth Goodman (eds.), Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon
by Verna A. Foster
Ellen Donkin’s Getting into the Act: Women Playwrights in London 1776-1829
by Barbara Mackey
David D. Mann and Susan Garland Mann, with Camile Garnier, Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland 1660-1823
by Nancy Copeland
Volume 11, Issue 2 (Winter 1996)
Articles:
“The Perils of Florinda”: Aphra Behn, Rape, and the Subversion of Libertinism in The Rover, Part I
by Anthony Kaufman
“Setting Shakespear A-Quavering”: Characterization and Lyrics in Garrick’s Shakespearean Operas of the 1750s
by Linda R. Payne
“The Yielding Moment”: A Woman’s View of Amorous Females and Fallen Women
by J. Karen Ray
Rejecting the Status Quo: The Attempts of Mary Pix and Susanna Centlivre to Reform Society’s Patriarchal Attitudes
by Patsy S. Fowler
Review:
Curtis Price, Judith Milhous, and Robert D. Hume’s Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London, 2 vols. Volume 1: The King’s Theatre, Haymarket, 1778-1791.
by Robert McGeary
Volume 11, Issue 1 (Summer 1996)
Articles:
The Opera Accounts of Sir Robert Walpole
by Thomas McGeary
The Male Masochist in Restoration Drama
by Danielle Perdue
Mrs. Midnight, Mrs Mandrake, and the Serious Presentation of the “Drag Role” in The Twin-Rivals
by Vicky Bancroft
Behn: Auth-WHORE or WrITer? Authorship and Identity in The Rover
by Danielle Bobker
The Country Wife: Metaphor Manifest
by Barrie Hawkins
Review:
John C. Ross (ed.), Thomas Shadwells’ Bury-Fair, a Critical Edition
by Christopher J. Wheatley
Volume 10, Issue 2 (Winter 1995)
Articles:
Restoration Comedy in the Modern British Theatre
by Lennart Nyberg
The Wives’ Excuse or Cuckolds Make Themselves at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, Summer 1994
by Jessica Munns
“Alas! I Fear I’ve Been Too Hasty!” and Other Reconsiderations of Addison’s Cato
by Leslie Radford
The Character of Pamela from Richardson’s Novel to Goldoni’s Comedy
by Paola Polesso
Reviews:
Pat Gill’s Interpreting Ladies: Women, Wit, and Morality in Restoration Comedy
by Ann Straulman
Elizabeth Howe’s The First English Actresses: Women and Drama 1660-1700
by Barbara Mackey
Philip H. Highfill, Jr., Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward A. Langhans (eds.), A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London 1660-1800
by Cheryl Wanko
Volume 10, Issue 1 (Summer 1995)
Articles:
The Country Wife and Social Danger
by Derek Cohen
The Power of Performance: Sir George Etherege’s The Man of Mode
by Judith W. Fisher
Aphra Behn’s The Feign’d Curtezans; or a Night’s Intrigue from Calderon’s Casa con Dos Puertas Mala Es de Guardar
by Dolors Altaba-Artal
Gender and Nationalism in Richard Steele’s The Tender Husband
by Kevin J. Gardner
John Duncombe and the 1782 Biographia Dramatica
by Arthur Sherbo
Marina and the Spirit of Her Times
by Trudy Drucker
Review:
Heidi Hutner (ed.), Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism
by Nancy Copeland
Volume 9, Issue 2 (Winter 1994)
Articles:
Comic Fable or Dolphins in the Skies: Understanding Eighteenth-Century Pantomime
by Brent Chesley
Love, Chance and the Arranged Marriage: Lady Mary Rewrites Marivaux
by Barbara Darby
Cutting the Gordian Knot: The Humor of Aphra Behn and Roseanne Arnold
by Cynthia L. Caywood and Bonnie A. Hain
Reviews:
Pierre Danchin (ed.), The Prologues and Epilogues of the Eighteenth Century: A Complete Edition, the Second Part, 1721-1737
by Brian Corman
Nancy Klein Maguire’s Regicide and Restoration: English Tragicomedy, 1660-1671
by Verna A. Foster
Christopher J. Wheatley’s Without God or Reason: The Plays of Thomas Shadwell and Secular Ethics in the Restoration
by Stephen Cox
James L. Steffensen (ed.), The Dramatic Works of George Lillo
by William J. Burling
Volume 9, Issue 1 (Summer 1994)
Articles:
Matthew Medbourne’s Tartuffe (1670): A Satire on Land-Acquisition During the Interregnum
by Anne Barbeau Gardiner
Inkle and Yarico and the Discourse of Slavery
by Joan Hamilton
Aphra Behn’s Conflicted View of Marriage
by Sheryl Nadler
Immorality and Debauchery: George Meriton’s Parallel Voice to Jeremy Collier
by Larry Isitt
“He That Should Guard My Virtue Has Betrayed It”: The Dramatization of Rape in the Exclusion Crisis
by Susan J. Owen
Reviews:
David Thomas’s William Congreve
by Anthony Kaufman
Brian Corman’s Genre and Generic Change in English Comedy 1660-1710
by Robert F. Bode
Volume 8, Issue 2 (Winter 1993)
Articles:
Patriarchal Politics Under Cultural Stress: Nathaniel Lee’s Passion Plays
by Stephan P. Flores
Apart from Etherege: Stage Directions in The Man of Mode
by David K. Sauer
The Auction Scene in Sheridan’s The School for Scandal
by Timothy J. Viator
William Clerke’s Marciano and Restoration Scotland
by Richard Gale
Volume 8, Issue 1 (Summer 1993)
Articles:
Setting the Record Straight on John Crowne
by Beth S. Neman
“Who…Her Own Wish Deny?”: Female Conduct and Politics in Aphra Behn’s The City Heiress
by Nancy Copeland
“Neither a Widow, a Maid, nor a Wife”: Miss Wooburns “Fault” in Every One Has His Fault
by Karen Overbye
Reviews:
T.G.S. Cain and Ken Roberts (eds.), “Into Another Mould”: Change and Continuity in English Culture
by Christopher A. Coulter
William J. Burling’s A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1770-1737
by F.M. Link
Volume 7, Issue 2 (Winter 1992)
Articles:
Biographical Problems and Satisfactions in Susanna Centlivre
by Richard C. Frushell
“Your Fetter’d Muse”: The Reception of Katherine Philips’ Pompey
by Christopher J. Wheatley
Jo. Haines as Librettist for Purcell’s Fairy Queen
by David Dyregrov
A Performance of Comus at Badminton House in 1752
by Michael G. Brennan
Colonial Discourse in Richard Cumberland’s Play The West Indian: The Relationship of the Colonizer to the Homeland
by James N. Houston, Jr.
Controversy and Commentary
Letters from Richard W. Bevis and J. Douglas Canfield
Volume 7, Issue 1 (Summer 1992)
Articles:
“Warbling Eunuchs”: Opera, Gender, and Sexuality on the London Stage, 1705-1742
by Thomas McGeary
The Two Backed Beast: Eunuchus and Priapus in The Country Wife
by Giles Slade
Such Wounds as Hell Can Equal: Tragic Guilt in the Drama of George Lillo
by Robert L. Mack
Thomas Shadwell’s Censored Comedy, The Lancashire-Witches: An Attack on Religious Ritual or Divine Right?
by Judith B. Slagle
Volume 6, Issue 2 (Winter 1991)
Articles:
The Triumvirate and Aurora's Nuptials: Two “Lost” Plays from the Early 18th Century
by William J. Burling
George Lillo’s The London Merchant and Feminist Debate
by Mara H. Fein
Kate’s Stratagem and the Naming of She Stoops to Conquer
by Oliver W. Ferguson
Sheridan, Politics, the Navy and the Musical Allusions in the Final Scene of The Critic
by Eric S. Rump
Selective Bibliography: 1988-1990
by Muriel Sanderow Friedman
Reviews:
Juliet Stone Peters’s Congreve, the Drama and the Printed Word
by Brian Corman
Robert Fahrner’s The Theatre Career of Charles Dibdin the Elder
by Philip H. Highfill, Jr.
Robert Moss Markley’s Two-Edg’d Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley and Congreve
by Giles Slade
Volume 6, Issue 1 (Summer 1991)
Articles:
Dramatic Shifts: Writing an Ideological History of Late Stuart Drama
by J. Douglas Canfield
Gab and Garb in Restoration Comedy: The Unfashionable Language of Clothes
by Becky McLaughlin
“New Matter for Our Wonder and His Praise”: Almanzor in The Conquest of Granada
by Gayle Edward Wilson
A Bold Stroke for a Wife: Centlivre’s Satiric Fairy Tale
by William Hull
Reviews:
Shearer West’s The Image of the Actor: Verbal and Visual Representation in the Age of Garrick and Kemble
by Edward A. Langhans
David Roberts’s The Ladies: Female Patronage of Restoration Drama
by Maureen E. Mulvihill
Volume 5, Issue 2 (Winter 1990)
Articles:
The Popularity of Pantomime on the London Stage, 1720-1760
by Paul Sawyer
A Note on Halifax and Otway
by Jessica Munns
Lillo’s The London Merchant and the Discourse of Criminal Biography
by Louis Markos
Parallel Scenes in Othello and The Relapse
by Margaret D. Bauer
Reviews:
David Thomas and Arnold Hare (eds.), Theatre in Europe: A Documentary History, Restoration and Georgian England, 1660-1788
by Harold Love
Helen Pellegrin (ed.), Thomas Shadwell’s The Libertine, A Critical Edition
by Gustav Ungerer
Volume 5, Issue 1 (Summer 1990)
Articles:
Politics and Ethics in She Stoops to Conquer
by James E. Gill
Dating Dryden’s Amboyna: Allusions in the Text to 1672-1673 Politics
by Anne Barbeau Gardiner
The Quarrel Between Sir John Vanbrugh and George Powell
by J.D. Alsop
Checklist of Female Dramatists, 1660-1823
by David D. Mann
Volume 4, Issue 2 (Winter 1989)
Articles:
The Sentimentality of Garrick’s Romeo and Juliet
by Nancy Copeland
The Defense of the Status Quo and Otway’s The Atheist
by Christopher J. Wheatley
Colley Cibber: A Bibliography, 1967-1987
by Timothy J. Viator
Selective Bibliography: 1986 and 1987
by Muriel Sanderow Friedman
Volume 4, Issue 1 (Summer 1989)
Articles:
“Try Me, At Least”: The Dispensing of Justice in The Plain Dealer
by Robert F. Bode
Rochester’s Valentinian
by Larry Carver
The Kelly-Garrick Connection and the Politics of Theatre Journalism
by Robert R. Bataille
Wycherley’s The Plain-Dealer and Shadwell’s A True Widow
by Vicky Bancroft
Messink’s Moral Pantomime
by Brent Chesley
Reviews:
Jacqueline Pearson’s The Prostituted Muse: Images of Women and Women Dramatists 1642-1737
by Jessica Munns
Harold C. Knutson’s The Triumph of Wit: Moliere and Restoration Comedy
by Anthony Kaufman
Volume 3, Issue 2 (Winter 1988)
Articles:
Phenomenological Psychology and Comic Form in The Plain Dealer
by Laura Morrow
Barton and Behn’s The Rover: Or, the Text Transpos’d
by Jessica Munns
Goldsmith’s Political Drama: The Good Natur’d Man, Lofty, and Bute
by Christopher K. Brooks
Colley Cibber’s The Rival Queans: A New Consideration
by Cheryl Wanko
Correcting Errors Concerning Messink’s The Choice of Harlequin (1781)
by Brent Chesley
Reviews:
Edward Burns’s Restoration Comedy: Crises of Desire and Identity
by Richard Bevis
Mollie Sands’s The Eighteenth-Century Pleasure Gardens of Marylebone 1737-1777
by Richard H. Dammers
John Downes’s Roscius Anglicanus
by Timothy J. Viator
Volume 3, Issue 1 (Summer 1988)
Articles:
“Ceres in Her Harvest”: The Exploded Myths of Womanhood in George Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Stratagem
by Sue L. Kimball
“Restoring and Preserving… Learning”: Rowe’s Ulysses, 1705
by Richard J. Sherry
Evidence of Collaboration in the Writing of Robert Hunter’s Androboros
by Peter A. Davis
Theobald’s Preface to Richard II, and the Possible Closing of Lincoln’s Inn Fields in 1719
by Timothy J. Viator
An Index to the Theatrical Materials in the English Theatre Journals Published Between 1700 and 1750
by David Ritchey
Volume 2, Issue 2 (Winter 1987)
Articles:
Richard Flecknoe’s Early Defense of the Stage: An Appeal to Cromwell
by J. Douglas Canfield
The Significance of the 1731 Revisions to The Fall of Mortimer
by Lance Bertelsen
The Fall of George Barnwell
by Clay Daniel
Granville’s Jew of Venice and the Eighteenth-Century Stage
by Catherine A. Craft
Reviews:
Harry Levin’s Playboys and Killjoys
by Anthony Kaufman
Mary Edmond’s Rare Sir William Davenant: Poet Laureate, Playwright, Civil War General, Restoration Theatre Manager
by Christopher Spencer
Arthur R. Huseboe’s Sir George Etherege
by Robert F. Bode
Volume 2, Issue 1 (Summer 1987)
Articles:
Four Casts for Early Eighteenth-Century London Operas
by William J. Burling
The Distinction of Otway and Betterton
by Philip K. Jason
The Alternating Styles of The Plain Dealer
by Derek Cohen
Restoration Heroines: Reflections of Social Change
by Yvonne Schafer
“Simple Art and Simple Nature”: Sarah Siddons Versus Ann Crawford
by Nancy E. Copeland
Reviews:
Harold M. Weber’s The Restoration Rake-Hero: Transformations in Sexual Understanding in Seventeenth-Century England
by Brian Corman
J.L. Styan’s Restoration Comedy in Performance
by Verna A. Foster
Volume 1, Issue 2 (Winter 1986)
Articles:
The Design of the High Plot in Etherege’s The Comical Revenge
by Jean Gagen
Fielding’s Artistic Accommodations in The Author’s Farce (1730)
by Albert J. Rivero
Female Characterizations in English Platonic Drama: A Background for the Eighteenth Century Tragedies of Nicholas Rowe
by Richard H. Dammers
Lillo’s Liberated Women
by Trudy Drucker
The Original of Dr. Last in Samuel Foote’s The Devil Upon Two Sticks
by Arthur Sherbo
Volume 1, Issue 1 (Summer 1986)
Articles:
William Popple: Dramatist, Critic, and Diplomat
by C.R. Kropf
Command Performances During the Reign of George II
by Louis D. Mitchell
An Index to the Theatrical Materials in Five Eighteenth-Century American Theatre Journals
by David Ritchey
The Afterpiece: Origins and Early Development
by Philip K. Jason
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