Deborah C Payne

Deborah C. Payne is Professor Emerita of Literature at American University, USA. She was the Humanities Research Consultant at the Shakespeare Theatre Company from 2000 - 2009, and she has dramaturged for Studio Theatre, Arena Stage, the Kennedy Center, and the Bach Sinfonia. Her publications include The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660 - 1700 (2024), Revisiting Shakespeare's Lost Play (2016), Four Restoration Libertine Plays (2005), The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration...See more

Deborah C. Payne is Professor Emerita of Literature at American University, USA. She was the Humanities Research Consultant at the Shakespeare Theatre Company from 2000 - 2009, and she has dramaturged for Studio Theatre, Arena Stage, the Kennedy Center, and the Bach Sinfonia. Her publications include The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660 - 1700 (2024), Revisiting Shakespeare's Lost Play (2016), Four Restoration Libertine Plays (2005), The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre (2000) and Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theatre (1995). See less