Plays By Samuel Foote And Arthur Murphy
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Author | : George Taylor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1984-03-29 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780521241328 |
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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 | : Samuel Foote |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : George Taylor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1984-03-29 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780521284677 |
Download Plays by Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Samuel Foote |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1830 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download The works of Samuel Foote, esq., with remarks on each play and an essay by Jon Bee Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : George Taylor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1984-03-29 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780521284677 |
Download Plays by Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Samuel Foote |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Art critics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Arthur Murphy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
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Download The Plays of Arthur Murphy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Warren L. Oakley |
Publisher | : MHRA |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1906540217 |
Download A Culture of Mimicry Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
After his death in 1768, the famous novelist Laurence Sterne did not rest undisturbed in his grave. While rumours of the theft and dissection of Sternes corpse circulated in the anatomy schools, numerous writers took possession of his literary body of work. New forms of Sternean entertainment were produced by literary mimics who impersonated the author through the medium of print, impersonations which included startling and unique interpretations of Sternes character and fiction. Warren Oakley introduces two new critical concepts to eighteenth-century literary study, bodysnatching and mimicry, to understand these texts that have been neglected and overlooked in Sterne studies. This lucid account reveals the personal stories of such literary mimics, the creative techniques they employed and the consequences of their actions upon the posthumous perception of Sterne, the man and his cadaverous goods.
Author | : Samuel Foote |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1830 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download The Works ; with Remarks on Each Play, and an Essay on the Life, Genius and Writings of the Author by Jon Bee Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : R. Eagles |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2000-06-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230599109 |
Download Francophilia in English Society, 1748-1815 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book examines the impact of French society on English culture in the second half of the eighteenth century. In an age when many historians suggest the inexorable rise of the middle classes was being driven forward by industrialization, the English aristocracy stood apart from the trend towards commercial respectability, and revelled in all that was best in cosmopolitan fashion and ideas. Welcoming the French Revolution as a re-enactment of 1688, they watched aghast as their world descended into the Terror, and the onslaught of Bonaparte.