Restoration comedy. Uncorrected copy (v.1, pt.2)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Restoration comedy. Uncorrected copy (v.1, pt.2)
Classmark: BC Gen/JEF
Additional creator(s): Jeffares, A Norman (1920-2005) (Other)
Related people: Jeffares, A. Norman
Publisher: The Folio Press
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1973
Language: English
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/274527
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000070999705181
Description
Texts of twenty four plays, 1664-1723, edited with an introduction and notes by A.N. Jeffares.
Catalogued from cover.
Proofs corrected in pencil by an unknown hand.
Wanting the general introduction.
All texts based on copies in the Brotherton Collection, with the exception of Wycherley's "The plain dealer"and Farquhar's "The recruiting officer". All are first editions, except Farquhar's "The constant couple", taken from the corrected third edition, 1701.
Finally published March 1974, in four volumes.
V.1, pt.1: Thomas Killigrew: The parson's wedding (1663); Sir Charles Sedley: The mulberry garden (1668); Sir George Etherege: She would if she could (1668). -- v.1, pt.2: John Dryden: Sir Martin-Mar-all (1668); William Wycherley: The country wife (1675); Sir George Etherege: The man of mode (1676). --v.2, pt.1: Thomas Durfey: Madam Fickle (1676); William Wycherley: The plain dealer (1677); Alphra Behn: The rover (1677). -- v.2, pt.2:John Dryden: The kind keeper (1680); Edward Ravenscroft: The London cuckolds (1682); John Crowne: Sir Courtly Nice (1685). -- v.3, pt.1: Alphra Behn: The lucky chance (1687); Thomas Shadwell: The squire of Alsatia (1688); William Congreve: Love for love (1695). -- v.3, pt.2: Colley Cibber: Love's last shift (1696); Sir John Vanbrugh: The relapse (1697), and The provoked wife (1697). -- V.4, pt.1: George Farquhar: The constant couple (1701, third edition); William Congreve: The way of the world (1700); Colley Cibber: The careless husband (1705). -- v.4, pt.2:
George Farquhar: The recruiting officer (1706) and The beaux stratagem (1707); Richard Steele: The conscious lovers (1723).
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