{"title":"Animals in Restoration Theatre, 1660–1710","authors":"Riki Miyoshi","doi":"10.5325/rectr.35.0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.35.0052","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Performing animals in Restoration theatre have seldom been the focal point of research. Exceptions include Michael Burden’s “Dancing Monkeys at Dorset Garden,” which examined the possible use of live monkeys in Henry Purcell’s opera The Fairy-Queen (1692), and Rafael Portillo’s “Staging Restoration Dramas,” a portion of which is dedicated to animals on the stage. This article provides a survey of animals on the Restoration stage and demonstrates the survival of a meaningful amount of evidence to suggest that live animals were employed more often than has hitherto been believed. It further argues that animals made a significant contribution to theatrical productions of the Restoration period.","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"107 48","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138607984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relapse","authors":"Misty G. Anderson","doi":"10.5325/rectr.35.0076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.35.0076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":" 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138616621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian and Late Patentee of the Theatre Royal: A Modernized Text","authors":"Angelina Del Balzo","doi":"10.5325/rectr.35.0141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.35.0141","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"54 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138627573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“But first let’s have a dance”: Music in Aphra Behn’s Plays","authors":"Laura L. Runge","doi":"10.5325/rectr.35.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.35.0027","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This quantitative analysis of Aphra Behn’s musical terms demonstrates that her comedies need to be understood in the context of seventeenth-century music. As a Restoration dramatist, Behn experienced the early phase of the Baroque. Despite the considerable presence of music in her works, scholarship on Behn and music has been neglected. Nodes of her preferred terms—dance, sing, song, and musick—are mapped and analyzed, focusing on four of the most musical plays: The Revenge (1680), The Roundheads (1682), The Luckey Chance (1687), and The Emperor of the Moon (1687). As a collaborator with professional musicians, dancing masters, and actors, Behn demonstrates facility with instrumentation and a range of musical affects, dance forms, and song types. Her comedies exemplify a theatrical phenomenon that had an intelligible, palpable, but ephemeral impact on characters and audience members alike. Her original comic musicals provide keys for understanding how music functioned in art and culture.","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":" 432","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138610835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mary Berry and Anne Damer: Fashionable Friends, Eighteenth-Century Female Friendship, and (of Course) the Archive","authors":"Skyler Sunday","doi":"10.5325/rectr.35.0104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.35.0104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138626482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn: Words of Passion","authors":"Juan A. Prieto-Pablos","doi":"10.5325/rectr.35.0144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.35.0144","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":" 40","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138611314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}