Karolinum Press, Charles University
Restoration Reshaping: Shifting Forms, Genres and Conventions in Late 17th and Early 18th Century English Theatre
9788024662824
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Restoration Reshaping: Shifting Forms, Genres and Conventions in Late 17th and Early 18th Century English Theatre
282 pages | 6.57 x 9.25 | © 2026
Culture Studies:
History: European History
Literature and Literary Criticism: Dramatic Works
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction (Anna Hrdinová, Filip Krajník)
1. Competing Heroes? Genre, Repertory, and Rivalry on the Early Restoration Stage (Stephen Watkins)
2. Adapting Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew for the late 17th- and 18th-Century English Stage (Martina Andrisová)
3. Richard Fanshawe’s To Love Only for Love Sake: Exploring Theatre Translation Methods in Pre-Restoration England (Jorge Braga Riera)
4. ‘All you shall see of her is perfect man’: Performing Masculinities in John Dryden and William Davenant’s The Tempest (Nathan Richards-Velinou)
5. The Limits of Liberty in Aphra Behn’s The Dutch Lover (Dita Hochmanová)
6. ‘The Curtain’s Drawn’: Incest as Spectacle in John Dryden’s and Nathaniel Lee’s Oedipus (Lisanna Calvi)
7. Weaponizing Adaptation: Clarendon’s Impeachment and Political Critique in Restoration Drama (Lauren Liebe)
8. Edmund Waller’s Restoration Version of The Maid’s Tragedy (Andrew R. Walkling)
9. ‘A daughter Ravished’: Sedley’s Bellamira and the Drama of Enslavement (Laura J. Rosenthal)
10. Gender Issues and Lexicosemantic Cues in Fletcher’s and Powell’s Bonduca(s) (Fabio Ciambella)
11. Shakespeare Going Pop: Shakespeare and Small Theatre Forms in the Early 18th Century (Filip Krajník)
12. Sound Instead of Sense?: Two 1730 Ballad Operas and Their Role in the Theatrical Public Sphere of Early 18th-Century London (Anna Hrdinová)
13. Reimagining Restoration Stages: Restoration Theatre in Three Contemporary Plays (Tomáš Kacer)
Acknowledgements
Introduction (Anna Hrdinová, Filip Krajník)
1. Competing Heroes? Genre, Repertory, and Rivalry on the Early Restoration Stage (Stephen Watkins)
2. Adapting Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew for the late 17th- and 18th-Century English Stage (Martina Andrisová)
3. Richard Fanshawe’s To Love Only for Love Sake: Exploring Theatre Translation Methods in Pre-Restoration England (Jorge Braga Riera)
4. ‘All you shall see of her is perfect man’: Performing Masculinities in John Dryden and William Davenant’s The Tempest (Nathan Richards-Velinou)
5. The Limits of Liberty in Aphra Behn’s The Dutch Lover (Dita Hochmanová)
6. ‘The Curtain’s Drawn’: Incest as Spectacle in John Dryden’s and Nathaniel Lee’s Oedipus (Lisanna Calvi)
7. Weaponizing Adaptation: Clarendon’s Impeachment and Political Critique in Restoration Drama (Lauren Liebe)
8. Edmund Waller’s Restoration Version of The Maid’s Tragedy (Andrew R. Walkling)
9. ‘A daughter Ravished’: Sedley’s Bellamira and the Drama of Enslavement (Laura J. Rosenthal)
10. Gender Issues and Lexicosemantic Cues in Fletcher’s and Powell’s Bonduca(s) (Fabio Ciambella)
11. Shakespeare Going Pop: Shakespeare and Small Theatre Forms in the Early 18th Century (Filip Krajník)
12. Sound Instead of Sense?: Two 1730 Ballad Operas and Their Role in the Theatrical Public Sphere of Early 18th-Century London (Anna Hrdinová)
13. Reimagining Restoration Stages: Restoration Theatre in Three Contemporary Plays (Tomáš Kacer)