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Four Restoration Marriage Plays (Oxford Drama Library)
Four Restoration Marriage Plays - Oxford Drama Library Author:Thomas Otway, Nathaniel Lee, John Dryden, Thomas Southerne Marriage and its discontents lie at the heart of Restoration comedy. In all four of the great plays collected here, a married woman confronts her would-be seducer. Each dramatist, however, reinterprets this situation in a novel way. Rich, inventive, and diverse, the plays demonstrate the vigor with which the institution of marriage was treated... more » in the post-1660 playhouse.« less