The Dublin stage of the Restoration and the eighteenth century has largely been dismissed as "West British" and its plays for the most part have been forgotten. Christopher J. Wheatley's Beneath I rne's Banners: Irish Protestant Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century examines the works by Protestant dramatists that reveal the complex alliances and fissures of Anglo-Irish society during the age of the Penal Laws. From Richard Head's...