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This exciting new anthology captures the variety and richness of Restoration Drama. It provides annotated and judiciously modernized texts of the following plays: Tuke, The Adventures of Five Hours (1662); Howard, The Duke of Lerma (1668); Dryden, The Conquest of Granada (1670); Buckingman, The Rehearsal (1671); Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675); Wycherley, The Plain Dealer (1676); Etherege, The Man of Mode (1676); Behn, The Rover (1677); Dryden, All for Love (1677); Lee, Lucius Junicus Brutus (1680); Otway, Venice Preserved (1682); Congreve, Love for Love (1695); Cibber, Loves Last Shift (1696); Vanburgh, The Relapse (1696); Congreve, The Way of the World (1700); Farquhar, The Recruiting Officer (1706); Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem (1707); and, Centlivre, The Busie Body (1709).The volume offers a representative sampling of many of the different types of play put on in the period (sex comedy, moral comedy, heroric drama, Shakespearean adaptation and political history).