The London Merchant
The London Merchant

Author: George Lillo

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1965-01-01

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780803253650

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Mrs. Millwood is beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious, but London gives her no means of support except to seduce men. Love for her leads eighteen-year-old Barnwell to deceit, theft, and murder. "What are your laws," Mrs. Millwood asks, "but the fool?s wisdom and the coward?s valor, the instrument and screen of all your villainies by which you punish in others what you act out yourselves, had you been in their circumstances? The judge who condemns the poor man for being a thief had been a thief himself, had he been poor. Thus you go on deceiving and being deceived, harassing, plaguing, and destroying one another, but women are your universal prey." First performed in 1731, The London Merchant became on of the most popular plays of the century. A chronicler of the age, Theophilus Cibber called it "almost a new species of tragedy."

The London Merchant; Or, the History of George Barnwell, and Fatal Curiosity. Edited by Adolphus William Ward
The London Merchant; Or, the History of George Barnwell, and Fatal Curiosity. Edited by Adolphus William Ward

Author: George Lillo

Publisher: Sagwan Press

Published: 2018-02-05

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781376785388

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The London Merchant, Or the History of George Barnwell and Fatal Curiosity (Classic Reprint)
The London Merchant, Or the History of George Barnwell and Fatal Curiosity (Classic Reprint)

Author: George Lillo

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-25

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780331913613

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Excerpt from The London Merchant, or the History of George Barnwell and Fatal Curiosity The following is a list of Lillo's plays in the order of their production, with brief notes as to those not included in the present volume. It is due to Lillo that his compe tence - to say the least - as a writer of the species of tragedy accepted by his age should not be altogether overlooked. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.