ENGLISH DRAMA OF THE RESTORATION

AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

(1642-1780)

ENGLISH DRAMA OF THE

RESTORATION AND

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

(1642-1780)

BY

GEORGE HENRY NETTLETON

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN YALE UNIVERSITY

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1914,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

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Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1914.

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To

SIR ADOLPHUS WILLIAM WARD

IN TOKEN OF FRIENDSHIP