A new edition of this work, including the five plays of the first edition, The Country Wife , The Man of Mode , The Way of the World , The Conscious Lovers and The School for Scandal , as well as The Rover by Aphra Behn. The book stresses the relationship between theatre and society.
Derived from the colorful traditions of vaudeville, burlesque, revue, and operetta, the musical has blossomed into America's popular form of theater. This title explores the musical as a type of drama deserving the kind of critical and theoretical regard given to Chekhov or opera.