Unearths a performance history, on and off the stage, of Restoration Libertine Drama in Britain\'s eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Daniel Gustafson traces Libertine drama\'s persistent appeal for writers and performers wrestling with the powers of the emergent liberal subject and the tensions of that subject with sovereign absolutism..
Unearths a performance history, on and off the stage, of Restoration Libertine Drama in Britain\'s eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries