The Development of English Drama in the Late Seventeenth Century

Abstract

Part 1 The dramatic types in theory and practice: What is restoration drama theories of comedy the nature of the comic drama theories of serious drama. Part 2 The development of the play types 1660-1710: The establishment of Carolean drama 1660-1669 sex, horror, farce, and the heroic inclination in the 70s the political 80s the double tradition of the 90s the emergence of Augustan drama 1697-1710.