R 33.1–2 5 Juan A. Prieto-Pablos teaches at the Department of English Literature, University of Seville (Spain) since 1980. He is a member of the Restora- tion Comedy Project and has co-edited Tomas Shadwell’s Te Virtuoso and Epsom Wells (Seville, 1997 and 2000), Joseph Arrowsmith’s Te Ref- ormation and the anonymous comedy Te Woman Turned Bully (Bar- celona, 2003 and 2007) and has participated in the compilation of data on Restoration Comedy whose frst two volumes—Restoration Comedy: A Catalogue, 1660–1670 (2014) and Restoration Comedy: A Catalogue, 1671–1682 (2019)—have been printed by Teneo Press. He has published articles on Renaissance and Restoration drama in Te SEDERI Yearbook, Atlantis, Studies in English Literature, RECTR, and Teatre Notebook. Te Restoration Comedy Project: Goals and Challenges Juan A. Prieto-Pablos Universidad de Sevilla T he Restoration Comedy Project (RCP) is a long-term endeavor carried out by a team based mostly at the University of Seville. It has been jointly led by Rafael Portillo (until his retirement in 2010), Manuel J. Gómez-Lara, María José Mora and myself, with the collaboration of scholars from both Spain and abroad. 1 Te project has two main goals: on the one hand, the publication of critical editions of comedies that, in our opinion, deserve reviewing from an up-to-date perspective; on the other hand, a compilation of a catalogue and a database of all the comedies produced in the Restora- tion period, which shows the richness and diversity of the plays written in that period. Our central contentions are that Restoration comedy has suf- fered undue neglect, owing mostly to the resilience of moral and aesthetic prejudices, and that its image is conditioned by critical familiarity with a 1. Te full roster of collaborators can be found on the RCP website, https:// institucional.us.es/restoration/team/. Te project has received institutional sup- port from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades via its “Programa Sectorial de Promoción General del Conocimiento” since 1997. Te contributors to this volume of RECTR wish to acknowledge in particular the funding provided for 2016–2019 (Code FFI2015-68376-P) and 2020–2023 (Code PID2019-106306GB-I00). Downloaded from http://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/rectr/article-pdf/33/1-2/5/1480261/rectr_33_1-2_5.pdf by guest on 09 February 2022