English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1642 - 1780)

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Contrasts between elizabethan and restoration drama, The dramatic interregnum, The beginnings of restoration drama and operam Dryden and the heroic drama, Etherege and wycherley, Dryden, lee and otway, Aspects of minor restoration drama, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and farquhar, The moral reawakening, some aspects of queen anne drama, Pantomime and ballad operra, Voltaire's influence and bourgeois tragedy, Fielding and the licensing act, The Garrick era, The lighter drama of the garrick era, the rise and height of sentimental drama, Goldsmith and the reaction in comedy, Richard brinsley sheridan