Over the past several decades there has been a transformation in our appreciation of the political cultures, the chronologies and the revolutions of the late seventeenth century. We have learned to read its subtleties of confessional identity and paradoxes of tender conscience, and to read anew the full range of Restoration sexualities, gender relations and sociabilities. As importantly, we have enlarged our sense of authorship in this age: its often collaborative character, the role of literary coteries in fashioning discourse and circulating texts and the workings and institutions of the commercial press. We now apprehend the Restoration theatre not simply as a repertoire of heroic plays, witty comedies and tragedies of pathos, but as an ...
'Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court: Politics, Drama, Sexuality' examines the performative...
Excerpt: It was the sixties—albeit the 1660s—a time for tricksters, rakes, subversive women and sexu...
Ten radically altered versions of Shakespeare’s plays appeared on stage between 1678 and 1682, partl...
Over the past several decades there has been a transformation in our appreciation of the political c...
John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), the notorious and brilliant libertine poet of Kin...
The Works of the Earls of Rochester and Roscommon was one of the most popular poetic miscellanies of...
As the first literary work to be banned on grounds of obscenity in English history, Sodom; or the Qu...
Inheriting the Stage: Pre-Interregnum Drama in the Restoration is a study of the intersection of Res...
After the theaters reopened in the 1660s, most of the plays that were popular represented the audien...
The Restoration Transposed argues for the importance of the decades from 1660 to 1700 in transformin...
The Restoration Era, 1660-1688, has long borne a reputation as an exceptionally debauched period of ...
After the civil conflicts of the seventeenth century, England during the Restoration period began to...
This study is an exploration of the socio-economic implications of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester's ...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. June 2016. Major: English. Advisors: Katherine Scheil, J...
Libertines Real and Fictional in Rochester, Shadwell, Wycherley, and Boswell examines the Restoratio...
'Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court: Politics, Drama, Sexuality' examines the performative...
Excerpt: It was the sixties—albeit the 1660s—a time for tricksters, rakes, subversive women and sexu...
Ten radically altered versions of Shakespeare’s plays appeared on stage between 1678 and 1682, partl...
Over the past several decades there has been a transformation in our appreciation of the political c...
John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), the notorious and brilliant libertine poet of Kin...
The Works of the Earls of Rochester and Roscommon was one of the most popular poetic miscellanies of...
As the first literary work to be banned on grounds of obscenity in English history, Sodom; or the Qu...
Inheriting the Stage: Pre-Interregnum Drama in the Restoration is a study of the intersection of Res...
After the theaters reopened in the 1660s, most of the plays that were popular represented the audien...
The Restoration Transposed argues for the importance of the decades from 1660 to 1700 in transformin...
The Restoration Era, 1660-1688, has long borne a reputation as an exceptionally debauched period of ...
After the civil conflicts of the seventeenth century, England during the Restoration period began to...
This study is an exploration of the socio-economic implications of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester's ...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. June 2016. Major: English. Advisors: Katherine Scheil, J...
Libertines Real and Fictional in Rochester, Shadwell, Wycherley, and Boswell examines the Restoratio...
'Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court: Politics, Drama, Sexuality' examines the performative...
Excerpt: It was the sixties—albeit the 1660s—a time for tricksters, rakes, subversive women and sexu...
Ten radically altered versions of Shakespeare’s plays appeared on stage between 1678 and 1682, partl...