Purging the Past and Gauging the Future: Stage Puritans as Manifestations of Religious Trauma in Restoration Comedies Adapted from European Sources (1660-1689) by Alice Marion-Ferrand

“…This paper focuses on five Restoration comedies with religious concerns composed between Charles II’s return to England and the Glorious Revolution, and adapted from French, Spanish and English (Elizabethan and Jacobean) sources: The Law Against Lovers (1663) by William Davenant, Tartuffe or the French Puritan (1670) by Matthew Medbourne, Sir Patient Fancy (1678) by Aphra Behn, The Spanish Fryar, or the Double-Discovery (1681) by John Dryden, and Sir Courtly Nice, or It Cannot Be (1685) by John Crowne. …”
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