Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance

Daniel O'Quinn is Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, Canada.Kristina Straub is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Misty G. Anderson is Lindsay Young Professor of English and Joint Professor of Theatre at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA.

• Introduction1. Actress and Royal Mistress: "Pretty Witty Nell"2. Magical Transformations: A Queen and her Many Worlds3. Betterton's Last Lear4. Soldiers Abroad: The Recruting Officer in Charleston, South Carolina5. The Pleasures of Celebrity Scandal: The Rover's Endurance6.Opposition Cato: Royal Players at Leiceister House7. An African Weeps for Oroonoko: The Royal Slave8. Tom Thumb in Manhattan: Lewis Hallam’s Theatrical Enterprise9. The Chinese Festival Riots10. National Fantasy/Wardrobe Malfunction: Royal Command Performance of Thomas Arne’s Love in a Village11. Ethnic Spectacle: Charles Macklin in The Merchant of Venice and Love a-la-Mode12. An Actor's Farewell: Garrick in The Wonder13. The Re-Coronation of George III: Commemorating Handel14. Imperial Pantomime: John O’Keefe and Philippe Jacques De Loutherbourg's Omai, or A Trip Around the World15. Stealing Venice Preserv’d

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