| Scott McMillin is Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of Shakespeare in Performance: I Henry IV and The Elizabethan Theatre and the Book of Sir Thomas More and the co-author (with Sally-Beth MacLean) of The Queen’s Men and Their Plays, which won the Sohmer-Hall prize in Theatre History. Professor McMillin is editor of The First Quarto of Othello in the Cambridge Shakespeare. |
| Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition A Note on the Texts The Texts of the Plays Illustration: The Country Wife, National Theatre, 1977 William Wycherley—The Country Wife George Etherege—The Man of Mode Aphra Behn—The Rover Illustrations: The Way of The World, National Theatre, 1969 Illustrations: The Way of The World, National Theatre, 1969 William Congreve—The Way of the World Richard Steele—The Conscious Lovers Illustrations: The School for Scandal, Haymarket Theatre, 1962 Richard Brinsley Sheridan—The School for Scandal Contexts On Wit, Humour, and Laughter: 1650–1775 Thomas Hobbes: [On Laughter] [On Wit] [On Power] John Dryden—Preface to An Evening’s Love: or, The Mock Astrologer William Congreve—Concerning Humour in Comedy Richard Steele: Epilogue to The Lying Lover The Tatler, No. 219 Joseph Addison: The Spectator, No. 47 The Spectator, No. 62 Oliver Goldsmith—An Essay on the Theater The Collier Controversy: 1698 Jeremy Collier—A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage John Dennis—The Usefulness of the Stage William Congreve—Amendments of Mr. Collier’s False and Imperfect Citations Steele and Dennis: On The Man of Mode and The Conscious Lovers Richard Steele: The Spectator, No. 65 The Theatre, No. 1 The Theatre, No. 3 John Dennis: A Defense of Sir Fopling Flutter Remarks on The Conscious Lovers Stages, Actors, and Audiences Emmet L. Avery and Arthur H. Scouten—The Theatrical World, 1600–1700 Elizabeth Howe—The Arrival of the Actress Emmet L. Avery and Arthur H. Scouten—The Audience Charles Beecher Hogan—[Scenery and Lighting] Illustration: Model Reconstruction of Wren’s Design for a Playhouse, ca. 1674 Illustration: The Interior of Drury Lane in 1775 Criticism Charles Lamb—On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century L. C. Knights—Restoration Comedy: The Reality and the Myth Jocelyn Powell—[Visual Rhythm in The Country Wife] Harriet Hawkins—[The Man of Mode] Elin Diamond—Gestus and Signature in Aphra Behn’s The Rover Martin Price—[Form and Wit in The Way of the World] Laura Brown—[The Way of the World] Raymond Williams—[Sentimentalism and Social History] Selected Bibliography |
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