Description |
448 pages ; 21 cm. |
Series |
Reader's guide series
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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.
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English drama -- Stories, plots, etc.
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Dramatists, English -- Biography.
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ISBN |
0389201391 (Barnes & Noble) : £7.50 |
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9780389201397 (Barnes & Noble) |
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