Woman's revenge : or, A match in Newgate. A comedy. As it is acted at the Royal Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields
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Type of record: Book
Title: Woman's revenge : or, A match in Newgate. A comedy. As it is acted at the Royal Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields
Other titles: Match in Newgate
Classmark: BC Lt/BUL
Creator(s): Bullock, Christopher (1690?-1724)
Additional creator(s): Marston, John (1575?-1634) (Other); Betterton, Thomas (1635?-1710) (Other); Amhurst, Nicholas (1697-1742) (Other)
Related people: Gay, John, 1685-1732; Marston, John; Betterton, Thomas; Amhurst, Nicholas
Publisher: Printed for J. Roberts
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1728
Language: English
Size and medium: [viii], 80 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/268857
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017707239705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
First published in 1715.
An alteration by Christopher Bullock of Betterton's The revenge, itself an alteration of Marston's Dutch courtezan.
"A key to the Beggar's opera, in a letter to Caleb Danvers," first pub. in the Craftsman, February 17, 1728, is probably D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst) himself.--cf. C. E. Pearce, "Polly Peachum" and "The beggar's opera" [1913] p. [164]-178.
"To Miss Polly Peachum, a town pastoral... By J.W. of Cheapside" [i.e. Jonathan Wild], and "Newgate's garland: being a new ballad, shewing how Mr. Jonathan Wild's throat was cut from ear to ear ... [etc.]" [possibly by Swift or Gay] are printed at end.
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