Restoration Comedy Project

Between 1660 and 1706, over 500 plays were written in England, more than half of them comedies. But not all of them are available in modern printed editions, and only a selected few are currently being edited. The rest are neglected and rarely read. Since 1995 a team of university scholars have been working in a project which aims at providing the means for a better knowledge of the plays —particularly the comedies— of the Restoration period.

The team started with professors Juan A. Prieto-Pablos, Rafael Portillo, Maria José Mora and Manuel J. Gómez-Lara, all in the Department of English Literature at the University of Seville (Spain); in the second part of the project, other researchers have joined in, both from Seville, Cádiz and Vigo.

The Restoration Comedy Project has two main research goals, namely, the critical edition of significant comedies of the Restoration period (see Editions) and the elaboration of a catalogue of all the comedies written during the Restoration (see Catalogue).