{"product_id":"staging-restoration-comedy-the-royal-shakespeare-company-1967-2019-9783031522086","title":"Staging Restoration Comedy: The Royal Shakespeare Company, 1967-2019","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Roberts\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Theater - History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This insightful book tells a neglected story: the history of RSC's Restoration productions. It combines a loving history of RSC past performance, from the 1960s to the present day, with a bold manifesto for the future. Highly recommended!\"- Professor Tiffany Stern, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince its 1967 production of Vanbrugh's \u003ci\u003eThe Relapse, \u003c\/i\u003ethe Royal Shakespeare Company has been the world's leading producer of Restoration Comedies. This book is the first to document and critique the company's history of engagement with that repertoire. It reviews the spaces in which productions have been performed, design principles, casting, voicing, textual adaptation, musical direction, actor perspectives, and the problems of how to confront, adopt or depart from received notions of Restoration style. It goes on to posit that, for all the RSC's explorations of Restoration Comedy, the company has maintained the repertoire as a fringe interest played out in niche spaces, while recycling many of the assumptions it claims to challenge, and that what is needed is the writer-led intervention seen in RSC and National Theatre adaptations of French drama from the same period. Only then can Restoration Comedy begin to engage wider audiences in new sites of political, historical and cultural meaning. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Roberts \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of English at Birmingham City University, UK. He has published numerous books and articles about Restoration and earlier seventeenth-century theatre, including the monographs \u003ci\u003eThe Ladies: Female Patronage of Restoration Drama \u003c\/i\u003e(1989), \u003ci\u003eThomas Betterton \u003c\/i\u003e(2010), \u003ci\u003eRestoration Plays and Players \u003c\/i\u003e(2014) and \u003ci\u003eGeorge Farquhar: A Migrant Life Reversed \u003c\/i\u003e(2018), and editions, including \u003ci\u003ePinacotheca Bettertonaeana: the Library of a Seventeenth-Century Actor \u003c\/i\u003e(2013), Congreve's \u003ci\u003eThe Way of the World \u003c\/i\u003e(2020) and \u003ci\u003eAn Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber \u003c\/i\u003e(2022). David has published articles in, among others, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare Quarterly, ELH, The Cambridge Quarterly, New Theatre Quarterly, The Review of English Studies \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement. \u003c\/i\u003eRecent commissioned chapters include essays for \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music \u003c\/i\u003e(2022)\u003ci\u003e, The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature \u003c\/i\u003e(2024)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre Censorship \u003c\/i\u003e(2024)\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45273860276375,"sku":"9783031522086","price":2938.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783031522086.webp?v=1769237812","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/staging-restoration-comedy-the-royal-shakespeare-company-1967-2019-9783031522086","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}