Complete Key to the New Farce, call'd Three Hours after Marriage
Subtitle: With an Account of the Authors
By: By E. Parker, Philomath ....
Contributors: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Publisher: Printed, and Sold by E. Berrington, at the Cross-Keys near Essex-Street, without Temple-Bar
Published: 1717
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Gay, John, -- 1685-1732.; Arbuthnot, John, -- 1667-1735.
Other titles: A Key to the Farce call'd Three Hours after Marriage.; A True Character of Mr. Pope, &c.
Notes: The 'New Farce' is by John Gay, according to ESTC; the work is in two parts; the second has caption title: 'A True Character of Mr. Pope, &c.' (pp 3-18), dated at the end: 'London May 7. 1716'; dedication epistle to Mr. Lintott, signed: 'E. Parker'.

Of Gay's comedy entitled 'Three Hours after Marriage' the DNB states that 'it is perhaps fairer to say that he bore the blame than that he is justly charged with its errors of taste. Although he signed the 'Advertisement', and was popularly credited withthe authorship, he had Pope and Arbuthnot for active coadjutors. The piece was acted at Drury Lane, and published in January 1717. It ran feebly for seven nights. ... Like the 'What-d'ye-call-it', 'Three hours after Marriage' was followed by 'A Complete Key', which, however, was a criticism, and not a 'puff oblique''.

Caption titles: 'A Key to the Farce call'd Three Hours after Marriage', and 'A True Character of Mr. Pope, &c.'.

ESTC502P1 [under Parker]; ESTC3087P35 [under Pope].