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Vanbrugh and Farquhar

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. John Bull

    1. University of Reading, UK

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  • Covers two increasingly popular and studied dramatists of the PostRestoration period
    Sets the dramatists and their work in the context of their contemporaries and the theatre of their day
    The revival of interest in Restoration and PostRestoration drama

Part of the book series: English Dramatists (ENGDRAMA)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Lives, Times and Theatres

    • John Bull
    Pages 1-11

  3. At Play

    • John Bull
    Pages 12-24

  4. The Moral Reform Movement, Love’s Last Shift and Changing Sensibilities

    • John Bull
    Pages 25-39

  5. Vanbrugh’s The Relapse and The Provoked Wife

    • John Bull
    Pages 40-62

  6. Vanbrugh’s The Confederacy and Other Adaptations

    • John Bull
    Pages 63-85

  7. Farquhar’s The Twin Rivals and Other Plays

    • John Bull
    Pages 86-108

  8. Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux Stratagem

    • John Bull
    Pages 109-131

  9. Vanbrugh and Farquhar on the Modern Stage

    • John Bull
    Pages 132-139

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 140-158
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About this book

The plays of Vanbrugh and Farquhar effectively herald the end of the great period of post-Restoration comedy. Both writers, in their very different ways, reflect the larger changes that British society was undergoing as it began to define a modern world. The renewed interest in their work, and the frequent revivals of it on stage, comes not just from an admiration of their reinvigoration of the comic mode, but from their clear articulation of the sense of an old world in conflict with a new. In his exciting new study of the two playwrights, John Bull locates their work both in the context of their own times and in the larger history of theatrical production.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Reading, UK

    John Bull

About the author

JOHN BULL is Professor of Film and Drama at the University of Reading. He has published and lectured extensively on modern drama, and is on the editorial board of Critical Stages. He is the author of New British Political Dramatists and Stage Right: Crisis and Recovery in British Contemporary Mainstream Drama; editor of the six volume British and Irish Dramatists Since World War II , and has directed many plays, including three of his own.

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