Restoration Comedy
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Lisa Bergland, ‘The Language of Libertines’, Studies in English Literature, 1990
Ronald Berman, ‘The Comic Passions of The Man of Mode’, Studies in English Literature, 1970
Warren Chernaik, Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature (CUP, 1995)
Pat Gill, Interpreting Ladies: Women,Wit and Morality in the Restoration Comedy of Manners (Univ. of Georgia Press, 1994)
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Derek Hughes, English Drama 1600-1700 (Clarendon Press, 1996)
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Ronald Hutton, The Restoration (OUP, 1987)
R.W.F. Kroll, ‘Discourse and Power in The Way of the World’ in ELH, vol. 53 (1986)
Robert Markley, Two Edg’d Weapons: Style and Ideology in the Comedies of Etherege, Wycherley and Congreve (Clarendon Press, 1988).
Jean I. Marsden, ‘Rape, Voyeurism and the Restoration Stage’ in Katherine M. Quinsey, ed.,Broken Boundaries:Women and Feminism in Restoration Drama (Univ. Press of Kentucky,1996)
Lesley H. Martin, ‘Past and Parody in The Man of Mode’ ,Studies in English Literature, 1990
S. McCloskey, ‘Knowing One’s Relations in Congreve’s The Way of the World’ in Theatre Journal Vol. 33 (March, 1981)
J.S. Peters, ‘The Novelty’ in J. Douglas and Deborah C. Payne, eds., Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth Century English Theatre (Univ. of Georgia Press, 1995)
Susan Staves, Players’ Sceptres: Fictions of Authority in the Restoration (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1979)
David Thomas, William Congreve (Macmillan, 1992)
Harold Weber, The Restoration Rake-Hero (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1986)