Audience Approval: The Role of Opera in the Creation of the Shakespearean Myth during the English Restoration by Andrea Trocha Van Nort

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Virgin or Wife? St Dorothy’s Legend on the Late Restoration Stage by Anna Mikyšková

“… Although the early modern and the Restoration periods in England mark two distinct theatrical traditions, theproduction of English Restoration playwrights was to a great extent characterized by a conscious reliance on the legacy of their early modern precursors, which resulted in the high number of adaptations of old plays written and staged well into the 18th century. …”
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The je-ne-sais-quoi by Scholar, R, Scholar, Richard

“…The term is first used to unsettle its semantic precursors (by Descartes and others), becomes current in writing of the mid-seventeenth century (that of Corneille and Pascal in particular), but soon settles into the sediment of polite culture (as Méré, Bouhours, and English Restoration comedy show), (iv) Returning the word to the mobile non-substantival forms of its pre-history in Montaigne, to whom a chapter-length study is devoted, uncovers a form of writing that captures the force of the <em>je-ne-sais-quoi</em> better than the settled word itself. …”