Plays by Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy

Plays by Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy
Author: George Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1984-03-29
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780521241328

For this volume George Taylor has edited five plays by two largely forgotten eighteenth-century playwrights, Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy. The plays are The Minor and The Nabob by Foote and The Citizen, Three Weeks after Marriage and Know Your Own Mind by Murphy. All, apart from the last, are two- or three-act farces, the main popular fare of the eighteenth-century theatre. They are still eminently playable today, each exploring a different aspect of London society. Both playwrights have an acute ear for amusing and socially revealing dialogue, with a deft sense of situation comedy. Foote was an important theatre manager who established the success of the Haymarket Theatre by his particular brand of satire and mimicry. Had Murphy been more assiduous in his theatrical career and maintained good relations with David Garrick, his reputation as a dramatist might now have ranked him alongside Goldsmith and Sheridan.

The Reformists' Register, and Weekly Commentary

The Reformists' Register, and Weekly Commentary
Author: William Hone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 430
Release: 1817
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

Hone's publication was one of the most influential radical press newspapers during the months prior to his trials for libel. Cf. Bowden cited above.

Dennis Duval

Dennis Duval
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 654
Release: 1907
Genre:
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Burlesques

Burlesques
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 836
Release: 1883
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

The Works

The Works
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1869
Genre:
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Empire and Identity

Empire and Identity
Author: Stephen H. Gregg
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2005-10-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137039612

This anthology of primary material brings together literary and non-literary texts from the 18th century focusing on issues including commerce and colonialism. Britons' sense of identity in the 18th century see-sawed between embattled vulnerability and unassailable supremacy. Empire was crucial in shaping this, but contact with other peoples often threw into sharp relief or transformed this sense of identity. This book will be an essential resource for those studying this period; it traces these shifts in mood and the impact of imperial encounters in a variety of material, including poems, plays, speeches, letters, and accounts of travel, exploration and captivity.