Plays by Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy: The Minor, The Nabob, The Citizen, Three Weeks After Marriage, Know Your Own MindGeorge Taylor CUP Archive, 29 Μαρ 1984 - 244 σελίδες 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. |
Περιεχόμενα
Biographical records | 32 |
THE MINOR by Samuel Foote | 45 |
THE NABOB by Samuel Foote | 81 |
THE CITIZEN by Arthur Murphy | 113 |
THREE WEEKS AFTER MARRIAGE by Arthur Murphy | 143 |
KNOW YOUR OWN MIND by Arthur Murphy | 169 |
The plays of Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy | 230 |
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Plays by Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy: The Minor, The Nabob, The Citizen ... George Taylor Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 1984 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
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