Böcker i Restoration Drama-serien

This critical edition offers a fully annotated modernized text of the Restoration comedy "Mr. Turbulent" . The introduction adresses topics such as the political dimension of the green spaces of Restoration London represented onstage; and the rethorical use of madness associated with the Bedlam hospital for the insane.

This annotated modern-spelling text seeks to make accessible an amusing Restoration comedy which has never been published in a critical edition. The introduction offers a thorough analysis of the way in which Greenwich Park articulates processes of evolution on several levels: literary models, moral values and geopolitical displacement.

Thomas Durfey¿s Love for Money (1691) uses a boarding school in Chelsea as the setting for an amusing series of love intrigues. Characters include a long-lost heiress and her impoverished suitor, a mercenary jilt, a libertine rake with a touch of the gull, a bragging French coxcomb, and two hoydenish romps courted by fortune-hunting schoolmasters with treats of custard and cheesecake. An imperious plotting lady, together with her henpecked husband and her rascal lover, provide timely anti-Jacobite satire. This critical edition offers a fully annotated text and an introduction that places the comedy in its literary and theatrical context. The editors review Durfey¿s career and his redefinition of the comedy of wit, veering towards the exemplary in line with the moral values of the new regime.