Late Restoration drama (NIVEL AVANZADO)

Against Congreve and Restoration drama:

Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage. 1698.



Sir John Vanbrugh     (1664-1726)

_____.  The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger. Drama. 1697. Continuation of Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift.
_____. The Provok'd Wife. Drama. 1697.
_____. A Short Vindication of the Relapse and the Provok'd Wife from Immorality and Profaneness. 1698.
_____. The Pilgrim. Drama. Epilogue by John Dryden. 1700.
_____. The False Friend. Drama. 1702. Adapted from Le Sage.
_____. The Country House. Drama. 1703. Trans. from Dancourt.
_____. The Confederacy. Drama. 1705. Trans. from Dancourt.
_____. The Mistake. Drama. 1705. Adapted from Molière.
_____. The Cuckold in Conceit. Drama. 1707. Adapted from Moliére.

Vanbrugh, a playwright and architect, built Blenheim Palace (you can see it at the Dido and Aeneas video), Haymarket Theatre; Clarendon Building at Oxford, with Nicholas Hawksmoor.






GEORGE FARQUHAR  (1678-1707)
        (British dramatist, b. North Ireland, l. London)

_____. Love and a Bottle. Comedy. 1698.
_____. The Adventures of Covent Garden. Comedy. 1699.
_____. The Constant Couple, or a Trip to the Jubilee. Comedy. 1700.
_____. Sir Harry Wildair. Comedy. 1701.
_____. The Inconstant. comedy. 1702.
_____. "A Discourse upon Comedy, in Reference to the English Stage." 1702.
_____. The Twin Rivals. Comedy. 1702.
_____. The Stage-Coach. Comedy. 1704.
_____. The Recruiting Officer. Comedy. 1706.
_____. The Beaux' Stratagem. Comedy. 1707.





Mary Pix, The Innocent Mistress. 1697




THOMAS SOUTHERNE     (1660-1746)
(Augustan dramatist, b. Dublin, l. London)
_____. The Loyal Brother. Drama. 1682.
_____. The Disappointment. Drama. 1684.
_____. Sir Anthony Love. Drama. 1690.
_____. The Wives Excuse. Drama. 1692.
_____. The Maid's Last Prayer. Drama. 1693.
_____. The Fatal Marriage, or the Innocent Adultery. Drama. 1694.
_____. Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave. Drama. Prod. Nov. 1695. Pub. London, 1696. Based on the novel by Aphra Behn.
_____. The Fate of Capua. Drama. 1700.
_____. Money the Mistress. Drama. 1726.
_____. Works. 2 vols. 1713.




NATHANIEL LEE     (c. 1649-1692)
_____. The Tragedy of Nero. Drama. 1674.
_____. Sophonisba; or, Hannibal's Overthrow. Tragedy. 1675.
_____. Gloriana. Tragedy. 1676.
_____. The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great. Drama. 1677.
_____. Mithridates, King of Pontus. Drama. 1678.
_____. Caesar Borgia. Drama. 1680.
_____. Theodosius, or the Force of Love. Drama. 1680.
_____. Lucius Junius Brutus. Drama. 1680.
_____. Constantine the Great. Drama. 1684.
_____. The Princess of Cleve. Drama. 1689.

Nathaniel Lee and John Dryden. Oedipus, King of Thebes.  Tragedy. 1679.
_____. The Duke of Guise. Drama. 1682.

From Oedipus: "Music for a While", by Henry Purcell. Here is a jazz version, or two: