Restoration tragedies

by James Runcieman Sutherland (Editor)

Contains:
All for Love ; Or, The World well Lost (1677), by John Dryden
Lucius Junius Brutus ; Father of his Country (1680), by Nathaniel Lee
The Unhappy Favourite ; Or, The Earl of Essex (1681), by John Banks
Venice Preserved ; Or, A Plot Discovered (1682), by Thomas Otway
Oroonoko (1695), by Thomas Southerne

441 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1977

About the author

James Runcieman Sutherland, English scholar and teacher: Senior Lecturer, University College London 1930-36; Professor of English Literature, Birkbeck College 1936-44; Editor, Review of English Studies 1940-47; Professor of English Language and Literature, Queen Mary College 1944-51; Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature, University College London 1951-67 (Emeritus); FBA 1953; Public Orator, London University 1957-62; Knighted 1992.

He will be remembered also by many thousands of people who have little academic interest in literature but who enjoy and keep returning to The Oxford Book of English Talk (1953) and The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes (1975) which he compiled. Some other works include Defoe (1937), A Preface to Eighteenth Century Poetry (1948), Alexander Lectures in Toronto (On English Prose, 1957) and the Clark Lectures in Cambridge (English Satire, 1958), English Literature of the Later Seventeenth Century (1969), Daniel Defoe: a critical study (1971), The Restoration Newspaper and its Development (1986), and an attribution study on Swift (1992).