THE GAY COUPLE IN RESTORATION COMEDY

Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press. 1948. 1st editiion. xi+252pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good, clean condition inside and out. The dust jacket is lightly soiled with a bit of age toning along spine strip but otherwise in very good condition. It is not price clipped.  * "The 'Gay Couple,' that engaging pair of lovers in seventeenth-century comedy to whom courtship is a game and duel of wits, are traced by Mr. Smith from their origin with the Elizabethans through their rise in pre-Civil War time and triumph in the Restoration to their decline at the end of the century."