| Summary: | Reviews the following books on drama and the theater: Phillip Edward et al.'s 'The Revels History of Drama in English, Vol. IV, 1613-1660' (1981), Alexander Leggatt's 'Ben Jonson: His Vision and His Art' (1981), A. Coleman and A. Hammond's 'Poetry and Drama, 1570-1700: Essays in Honour of Harold F. Brooks' (1981), Ann J. Cook's 'The Privileged Playgoers of Shakespeare's London, 1576-1642' (1981), and Simon Shepherd's 'Amazons and Warrior Women: Varieties of Feminism in Seventeenth-Century Drama' (1981). These books illustrate how such varied social themes as censorship, feminism, and class differences affected the theater and how the drama of that time reflected these concerns.
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