This extremely readable volume analyses many individual texts, often in detail and for the first time, and also places them within the whole range of contempora

This book describes how and why women were permitted to act on the public stage after 1660 in England.

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Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victo

Allardyce Nicoll's History of English Drama, 1660-1900 was an immense scholarly achievement and the work of one man. Nicoll's History, which tells the story of