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Female Playwrights of the Restoration: Five Comedies, ed. Paddy Lyons and Fidelis Morgan. Everyman's Library. London and Boston: Dent and Tuttle, 1991. Pp. 363. $9.95.
Restoration Plays: New Edition, ed. Robert G. Lawrence. Everyman's Library. London and Boston: Dent and Tuttle, 1992. Pp. 678. $14.95.
Until the successful suit against their infringement of the copyright laws a number of years ago, Kinko's ubiquitous "class packet' ' afforded a most important resource for those teachers of Restoration and eighteenth-century literature attempting to revise the traditional canon. The Kinko's packet, now that copyright permissions have become necessary, is expensive and inconvenient. Anthologies have again become central to the classroom, and the Everyman's Library recent publication of two anthologies of Restoration dramatic literature reveals just how much, or little, the field has changed in the past decade.
Taken on its own, Restoration Plays would suggest that change has yet to visit the quaint precincts of Drury Lane. This volume contains the traditional canonical masterpieces that have defined the field during this century: Wycherley's The Country Wife, Etherege's The Man of Mode, Congreve's The...