A. The corpus
The plays
Restoration Plays. No editor given. Random House, Inc. 1953.
"The Man of Mode, Or, Sir Fopling Flutter" (Etheredge 1676);
"The Beaux' Stratagem" (Farquhar 1707).
Restoration Comedies. Ed. by Dennis Davison. Oxford Univ. Press 1970.
"The Country Wife" (Wycherley 1675);
"She Would If She Could" (Etheredge 1668);
"The Relapse" (Vanbrugh 1696).
Sir John Vanbrugh. Vol. I. Ed. by W.C. Ward. London 1893.
"The Provoked Wife" (Vanbrugh 1697).
The Comedies of William Congreve. Ed. by Eric S. Rump. Penguin 1985.
"The Old Bachelor "(Congreve 1693);
"The Way of the World" (Congreve 1700).
The Plays of William Wycherley. Ed. by A. Friedman. Oxford Univ. Press 1979.
"The Plain&endash;Dealer" (Wycherley 1676).
The Dramatic Works of George Farquhar. Ed. by A.C. Ewald. Nimmo 1892.
"The Constant Couple" (Farquhar 1699).
The letter collections
The British Prose Writers, Vol. VI, Lady Rachel Russell's Letters. Introduction and notes by Thomas Selwood 1748. Published by John Sharpe, London 1819&endash;1821.
Letters by Humphrey Prideaux to John Ellis 1674&endash;1722. Ed. by E.M. Thompson. London 1875.
Lyme Letters 1660&emdash;1760. Ed. by Lady Evelyn Newton. London 1925.
The diaries
The Diary of John Evelyn, Esq., F.R.S. Ed. by William Bray. London 1895.
The Diary of Ralph Josselin 1616&emdash;1683. Ed. by Alan Macfarlane. London University Press 1976.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 3. Ed. from Mynors Bright by John Warrington. Everyman's Library 1953.
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Davison, D. 1970. Introduction to Restoration Comedies. Oxford University.
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