How to Settle Accounts with your Laundress: An Original Farce, in One Act
How to Settle Accounts with your Laundress: An Original Farce, in One Act

Author: J. Stirling Coyne

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-12

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13:

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"How to Settle Accounts with your Laundress" by J. Stirling Coyne is a comedy English drama set in the 19th century. Joseph Stirling Coyne (1803–1868) was a humorist and satirist in the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. One of the most prolific British playwrights of the mid-nineteenth century. Coyne brought to the stage accomplished comedic interchanges, puns, irony, exaggerated character traits, ludicrous plot situations, and surprising outcomes. His plays reveal a deft ear for dialogue and an ability to create characters suited to the talents of specific actors. As a journalist, Coyne contributed humorous pieces to many widely circulated journals and newspapers.

A History of English Drama 1660-1900
A History of English Drama 1660-1900

Author: Allardyce Nicoll

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-06-25

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 9780521109314

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Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.

Prefaces to English Nineteenth-century Theatre
Prefaces to English Nineteenth-century Theatre

Author: Michael R. Booth

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780719008238

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This compilation of the prefaces from the author's "English plays of the nineteenth century" (5 vols. ; London : Oxford Univ. Press, 1969-1976) provides an introduction to the critical interpretations of most genres of English drama.