Four Great Restoration Comedies (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays)

Interesting, entertaining selection of period plays. I wish a small dictionary of pertinent, no longer used vocabulary words had been included. To understand the plays I had to purchase an additional period book of terminology.

great read for the mind

great condition!

Great collection for anyone interested in Restoration writing and times.

This is a nice, light edition, and it's price is very attractive. However, reading restoration comedy can be a difficult task; without footnotes one misses a great deal of the cultural reference and punning that make these plays so much fun to read. Also, the absence of line numbers makes it a less than ideal copy for a class, and makes referencing the works in a paper almost impossible. If you're already acquainted with themes, culture, tropes and puns of the restoration, this copy would be a good choice, but otherwise I would recommend a more scholarly edition.