"British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan first appeared in
1939as the culminating work of two well-known scholars of an
earlier generation, George H. Nettleton of Yale and Arthur E. Case
of Northwestern. The twenty-four plays that it contained made it
more inclusive than any rival anthology, just as the painstaking
care with which these texts were presented made it more reliable. .
. . The reader now has before him 'Nettleton, Case, and Stone, '
with the familiar twenty-four plays, but with a new preliminary
essay describing the theatres, methods of play production, acting
styles, and audiences of the Restoration and eighteenth century;
rewritten introductions and headnotes taking full notice of recent
scholarship and criticism; and a classified and annotated
bibliography."--From Gordon Ray's Preface to the Second
Edition.
"Well annotated, up-to-date, and a very valuable anthology."
--Johnsonian Newsletter
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