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Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of British Theatre covers the long period from the Restoration in 1660 to 1895. Essays by experts in the field provide authoritative, up-to-date and clearly written accounts of theatres, dramatists, actors and actresses, and audiences.

This authoritative 2-volume edition presents two of Oscar Wilde's plays, Lady Lancing and The Importance of Being Earnest, and explores the complex early history of these separate but closely related compositions. It also includes a reconstructed edition of Wilde's dramatic fragment, A Wife's Tragedy, based on a single undated manuscript.

Volume V of the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the first volume of plays, bringing together The Duchess of Padua, privately published in 1883 and left unpublished until now, Wilde's Salome, written and published in French in 1893, and its first English translation, by Lord Alfred Douglas, which was published in 1894 .

In the London summer of 1894, members of the National Vigilance Society, led by the well-known social reformer Laura Ormiston Chant, confronted the Empire Theatre of Varieties, Leicester Square, and its brilliant manager George Edwardes as he applied for a routine license renewal. On grounds that the Empire's promenade was the nightly resort of prostitutes, that the costumes in the theatre's ballets were grossly indecent, and that the moral he...

It was 1937 when Joseph Donohue first met Frank Milisits in grammar school. As they grew up together on the Upper East Side of New York City, the two boys kept scrapbooks on World War II, became junior aid-raid wardens, and attended block parties for returning veterans. But little did Joseph and Frank know that their fascination with war would eventually lead them one day to fight in a hostile climate thousands of miles away. In his Korean War...

It was 1937 when Joseph Donohue first met Frank Milisits in grammar school. As they grew up together on the Upper East Side of New York City, the two boys kept scrapbooks on World War II, became junior aid-raid wardens, and attended block parties for returning veterans. But little did Joseph and Frank know that their fascination with war would eventually lead them one day to fight in a hostile climate thousands of miles away. In his Korean War...

Volume Two begins in 1660 with the restoration of King Charles II to the throne and the reestablishment of the professional theater. It follows the far-reaching tevelopment of the form over more than two centuries to 1895.

This was the age of the star. For the first time in the history of the theater, the playwright took second place to the actor, the interpretation of the role assumed primary importance in a assessing a performance. It was Mr. Kean's Hamlet first, and Mr. Shakespeare's second.What effects did this highly subjective, interpretive emphasis have on the drama? Where did it originate and how did it evolve? These questions are considered at length in...