Four Restoration Libertine Plays

by Thomas Shadwell, George Etherege, Thomas Otway, et al.

Book Overview

These four plays in the Oxford English Drama series capture the range of responses to the fashionable and daring libertine movement in the second half of the seventeenth century. A Fond Husband and Friendship in Fashion are lesser-known comic gems of the Restoration stage; The Man of Mode is Etherege's masterpiece, and The Libertine is Shadwell's experimental and dark version of the Don Juan story. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192832948
• ISBN13: 9780192832948
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.6" x 5.0"