Will and No Will or a Bone for the Lawyers
Author: first_name: Charles
last_name: Macklin
Language: English
Year: 1746

This "Afterpiece"  - a short play to follow a main production - was first produced in 1746. It was based on Regnard's five-act comedy le Legetaire Universel (1707), which is itself a composite of Italian comedy with echoes of Molière, moving from scene to scene with little effort at logical consistency or structure but treating each scene autonomously for its own comic value.  <br><br>

The rather long Prologue to A WILL AND NO WILL (11 pages of manuscript) makes fun of the convention of the eig