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Author Thompson, John Cargill.

Title A reader's guide to fifty British plays, 1660-1900 / by John Cargill Thompson.

Publication Info. London : Heinemann ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble, 1980.
1660.

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  822.9 T37    Check Shelf
Description 448 pages ; 21 cm.
Series Reader's guide series
Note Previously published as: An introduction to fifty British plays, 1660-1900.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [433]-439.
Note Includes index.
Contents The tempest, or the enchanted island / Sir William D'Avenant, John Dryden -- Henry V / Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery -- An evening's love, or the mock astologer / John Dryden -- The rehersal / George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham -- Aureng-Zebe / John Dryden -- The country wife / William Wycherley -- The man of mode, or Sir Flopling Flutter / Sir George Etherege -- All for love, or the world well lost / John Dryden -- King Lear / Nahum Tate -- Venice preserved, or a plot discovered / Thomas Otway -- Love for love / William Congreve -- The relapse, or virtue in danger / Sir John Vanbrugh -- The mourning bride / William Congreve -- The way of the world William Congreve -- The funeral, or grief à la mode / Sir Richard Steele -- The recruiting officer / George Farquhar -- Cato / Joseph Addison -- Jane Shore / Nicholas Rowe -- The beggar's opera / John Gay -- Polly / John Gay -- The tragedy of tragedies, or the life and death of Tom Thumb the Great / Henry Fielding -- The London merchant, or George Barnwell / George Lillo -- The gamester / Edward Moore -- Douglas / John Home -- The way to keep him / Arthur Murphy -- The country girl / David Garrick -- The clandestine marriage / George Coleman -- The west indian / Richard Cumberland -- She stoops to conquer / Oliver Goldsmith -- The rivals / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- A trip to Scarborough / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- The castle spectre / M. G. Lewis -- Pizarro / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Rob Roy Macgregor / Sir Walter Scott, Isaac Pocock -- The doom of Devorgoil / Sir Walter Scott -- The Cenci / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Prometheus unbound / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Swellfoot the tyrant / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Virginius / James Sheridan Knowles -- The lady of Lyons / Edward Bulwer-Lytton -- London assurance / Dion Boucicault -- The colleen bawn / Dion Boucicault -- Caste / T. W. Robertson -- London by night / Dion Boucicault and others -- Charley's aunt / Brandon Thomas -- An ideal husband / Oscar Wilde -- The importance of being earnest / Oscar Wilde -- The liars / Henry Arthur Jones -- Trelawny of the "Wells" / Arthur Wing Pinero.
Subject English drama -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
English drama -- Stories, plots, etc.
Dramatists, English -- Biography.
ISBN 0389201391 (Barnes & Noble) : £7.50
9780389201397 (Barnes & Noble)
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