British theatre: eighteenth-century English drama
By: specimens of English 18th and early 19th century drama selected from anthologies and arranged by Natascha Würzbach.
Publisher: Minerva GMBH
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Frankfurt
Language: eng
Subjects: English drama -- 18th century.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Mrs. Susannah Centlivre (comedies). The busy body (1709). The wonder: a woman keeps a secret (1714). A bold stroke for a wife (1718).; title: v. 7. Mrs. Elizabeth Inchbald (comedies). Such things are. Everyone has his fault. Wives as they were and Maides as they are. Lover's vows. To marry or not to marry. The midnight hour. The wedding day.; title: v. 14. Melodrama (v. 1). The suspicious husband (1747), by B. Hoadly. The foundling (1748), by E. Moore. The man of the world (1781), by C. Macklin. The Countess of Salisbury (1765), by H. Hartson. The dramatist; or Stop him who can (1789), by F. Reynolds.