The Devil to Pay: Or, the Wives Metamorphos'd. An Opera. As it is Perform'd at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's Servants. With a Table of the Songs - Hardcover
Synopsis
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included.
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<sourceLibrary>British Library
<ESTCID>T031755
<Notes>Abridged by Theophilus Cibber from Charles Coffey's three act play of the same title, adapted, with help from John Mottley, from Thomas Jevon's 'The devil of a wife'.
<imprintFull>London : printed by Ed. Cook, 1736. <collation>36p. : ill. ; 12°
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