Plays by Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy
- 作者: Foote, Samuel,
- 其他作者: Murphy, Arthur, , Taylor, George,
- 出版: Cambridge ;New York : Cambridge University Press 1984.
- 稽核項: xi, 233 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
- 叢書名: British and American playwrights, 1750-1920
- 標題: English drama , English drama (Comedy) , English drama 18th century.
- ISBN: 0521284678 , 9780521284677
- 附註: Bibliography: p. 232-233. The minor / by Samuel Foote -- The nabob / by Samuel Foote -- The citizen / by Arthur Murphy -- Three weeks after marriage / by Arthur Murphy -- Know your own mind / by Arthur Murphy.
- 系統號: 005163527
- 資料類型: 圖書
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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.
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