{"title":"Ways of the World: Theater and Cosmopolitanism in the Restoration and Beyond","authors":"Jan Gorak","doi":"10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0153","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134368887","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 Restoration Comedy Project: Goals and Challenges","authors":"Juan A. Prieto-Pablos","doi":"10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article describes the main goals of the Restoration Comedy Project and its progress from its inception in 1997 to its current condition. By foregrounding the challenges the project team has faced in the definition of the corpus and in the extraction, classification, and analysis of data concerning the comedies of the Restoration period, I seek to explain what has been achieved and what is yet to be achieved. I also compare our response to these challenges with those undertaken by scholars engaged in similar projects, to show that these situations are common even if often silenced in descriptions of database research. Finally, this article serves as a general, contextual introduction to the rest of the articles in this same volume of RECTR, which focus on more particular aspects of the project.","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"53 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133875642","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 Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age","authors":"P. Richards","doi":"10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0151","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133755423","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 Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn. Volume IV: Plays 1682–1696","authors":"D. Hughes","doi":"10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0167","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117240039","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":"Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Goes Strolling","authors":"G. Lock","doi":"10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0135","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Goes Strolling” reflects on my process of writing, self-directing, and performing a forty-five-minute monologue, Lady in a Veil. The monologue foregrounds the life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, her writing, and her introduction to Britain of the Turkish way of smallpox inoculation, which she championed from 1721—over seventy years before Jenner's trials with vaccination. In the following reflection, I describe the provenance and rationale of Lady in a Veil, its accidental timeliness during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the choices I made as a writer, an eighteenth-century scholar, a feminist, and a performer of a certain age. I also consider the effect of audiences and audience feedback on the monologue's development, along with the challenges and benefits of transferring a solo show, designed for, and performed in, historic houses and libraries, to Zoom.","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121875990","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":"From Margaret Cavendish to Aphra Behn: A Quantitative Analysis of Stage Directions in Restoration Comedy","authors":"Manuel J. Gómez-Lara, A. Rosso","doi":"10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0083","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Stage directions have not been a central topic in English Drama Studies until recently. Their format, purpose and when they became part of the conventional language of printed plays have been traditionally associated with pre-Interregnum authors, but this article concentrates rather on the Restoration years, when a set of cultural and social circumstances boosted the printing of plays. A quantitative examination of nearly nineteen thousand stage directions from the comedies produced between 1660 and 1682 can contribute to a better understanding of the dramatic activity during this period. Their classification and analysis offer useful insights into new staging practices—technical conditions of the scenic stages plus a more than likely evolution in acting techniques—and the authors' individual preferences regarding performance and their different degree of involvement with the politics of commercial drama.","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125518784","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":"Professional Actors as Royal Drama Coaches, 1674–81","authors":"Andrew R. Walkling","doi":"10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0109","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores the history of several anecdotes relating to the theatrical coaching and training of members of the royal family, particularly Princess Anne, the future queen, by professional actors during the last decade of Charles II's reign. These anecdotes are not found in any contemporary archival or printed sources; rather, they were first published in the 1740s in a variety of memoirs and encyclopedic compendia relating to the history of the Restoration stage. The article compares and evaluates these anecdotes, investigating their veracity and seeking to uncover their pre-publication sources in the writings of a number of eighteenth-century antiquarians who annotated their personal copies of earlier printed accounts of the Restoration theatre and monarchy.","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128527885","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 Diverse Topography of Restoration Comedy","authors":"María José Mora","doi":"10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0061","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The choice of setting is an important element in dramatic works, one that is often aligned with the definition of character or genre. Restoration comedy has traditionally been associated with London settings, particularly with the fashionable new areas of court and town, frequented by the higher classes: St James's Park, the Mulberry Garden, the Mall, or Covent Garden. Such an assumption, however, rests largely on a view of the comic production of Restoration England which used to foreground the work of a small group of canonical playwrights like Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve. To revise this notion, the kind of quantitative analysis facilitated by the cataloguing work of the Restoration Comedy Project can prove very useful. This article discusses the difficulties faced in the process of determining the scene of the plays and builds on the data already collected for the period 1660–1682 to trace the topography of Restoration comedy. A review of this information yields a more diverse landscape than is usually taken for granted. Only half of the plays are set in London and barely half of those lay scenes in the genteel areas of the town. Moreover, an examination of the Covent Garden comedies shows that, after the Great Fire, this district is not represented as the exclusive preserve of the gentry, but as the home of a substantial number of citizen characters too.","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131100915","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":"Art & Celebrity in the Age of Reynolds & Siddons","authors":"B. Mudge","doi":"10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114243417","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":"Scepticism and Belief in English Witchcraft Drama, 1538–1681","authors":"S. Barker","doi":"10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/rectr.33.1-2.0143","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366404,"journal":{"name":"Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115319257","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}