Eighteenth Century British Drama (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
Overview
Most histories of the drama in Britain during the eighteenth century maintain implicitly or explicitly that the course of the development of the drama during this period was determined not so much by the playwrights as by the performers and theater managers and that the more managers and playwrights strove to please and succeeded in pleasing their audiences, the more the quality of the drama declined. Whereas during the Restoration, plays were composed by, for, and about members of the aristocracy, by the beginning of the eighteenth century, the theater had widened its...
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