The Mock Doctor ... Done from Molière [by Henry Fielding] ... The Fourth Edition, with Additional Songs and Alterations
Author: Henry Fielding
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Published: 1753
Total Pages: 54
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Author: Henry Fielding
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Published: 1753
Total Pages: 54
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Lockwood
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2007-10-11
Total Pages: 888
ISBN-13: 019156902X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the second of three volumes representing the only modern edition of Fielding's dramatic works. Most of these plays have not appeared in print for a century, and never previously in fully-edited form. Fielding is best known as a classic novelist and the author of Tom Jones, but like his great model Cervantes, he came to novel-writing from an important first career in professional theatre. He wrote twenty-eight plays, including comedies, satiric extravaganzas, and ballad operas. He was the leading playwright of his generation, an experimentalist and entrepreneur of dramatic form who sometimes also brought contemporary politics and public figures onto his stage with results even more dramatic off-stage. This volume presents nine plays from one of the most productive and successful periods of Fielding's theatre career. One of them, The Grub-Street Opera, is a ballad opera cheerfully mocking various public characters including the Prime Minister, Prince of Wales, and even King and Queen. Another, The Modern Husband, is a dark comedy attacking the cynical merchandising of sex, marriage, and influence among what passes for polite society in 1730s London. Most of the plays in this volume were major hits with long stage lives in repertory, including The Lottery, The Intriguing Chambermaid, and two of the great Molière adaptations of the century, The Mock Doctor and The Miser. Fielding wrote all four of those plays as star vehicles for the great Drury Lane musical actress Catherine Clive. The plays are given in critical unmodernized texts based on careful collation of the original editions, with explanatory notes and commentary on sources, stage history, and critical reception. All music is included, with appendices giving complete accounts of textual variation and bibliographic history for each play.
Author: Henry Fielding
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Published: 1761
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Fielding
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 885
ISBN-13: 0199257906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the second of three volumes representing the only modern edition of Fielding's dramatic works. Most of these plays have not appeared in print for a century, and never previously in fully-edited form. Fielding is best known as a classic novelist and the author of Tom Jones, but like his great model Cervantes, he came to novel-writing from an important first career in professional theatre. He wrote twenty-eight plays, including comedies, satiric extravaganzas, andballad operas. He was the leading playwright of his generation, an experimentalist and entrepreneur of dramatic form who sometimes also brought contemporary politics and public figures onto his stage with results even more dramatic off-stage.This volume presents nine plays from one of the most productive and successful periods of Fielding's theatre career. One of them, The Grub-Street Opera, is a ballad opera cheerfully mocking various public characters including the Prime Minister, Prince of Wales, and even King and Queen. Another, The Modern Husband, is a dark comedy attacking the cynical merchandising of sex, marriage, and influence among what passes for polite society in 1730s London. Most of the plays in thisvolume were major hits with long stage lives in repertory, including The Lottery, The Intriguing Chambermaid, and two of the great Molière adaptations of the century, The Mock Doctor and The Miser. Fielding wrote all four of those plays as star vehicles for the great Drury Lane musical actress Catherine Clive.The plays are given in critical unmodernized texts based on careful collation of the original editions, with explanatory notes and commentary on sources, stage history, and critical reception. All music is included, with appendices giving complete accounts of textual variation and bibliographic history for each play.
Author: Pickering & Chatto
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Published: 190?
Total Pages: 1136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 760
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Library of Congress. Music Division
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 648
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert D. Hume
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFielding's ten years as England's premier dramatist and theatre manager have long been neglected. This contextual study restores him to his rightful place in English theatrical history and acknowledges his pioneering accomplishments, from his fabulous success at age 23 and hard times when the Drury Lane company fell apart, to his innovations as manager of his own troupe in 1736.
Author: Pickering & Chatto
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 950
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