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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.
Author | : William Hone |
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Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 1818 |
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Author | : Samuel Foote |
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Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1778 |
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Author | : William Hone |
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Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1817 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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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.
Author | : William Makepeace Thackeray |
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Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1907 |
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Author | : Samuel Foote |
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Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1797 |
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Author | : William Makepeace Thackeray |
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Total Pages | : 836 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : William Makepeace Thackeray |
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Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1869 |
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Author | : Thackeray |
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Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1876 |
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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.