Colman the Elder George (94 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. The Rivals and Polly Honeycombe revolve around young women who wish the world would conform to novelistic convention. Unlike most eighteenth-century heroines keen on novel reading, however, Lydia Languish and Polly Honeycombe are neither deluded nor in any real danger. Rather, they inhabit a world in which everyone is engaged in some sort of quixotic performance; the more appealing characters are just willing to admit it. Both farcical and wise, these plays teasingly celebrate the perennial appeal of fiction, while never letting us forget how much it relies upon the everyday rituals of performance.The introduction to this Broadview edition explores the interrelations between print and performance in the eighteenth century, including a detailed and well-illustrated account of what it was like to go to the theater. Appendices include material on the original casts, the often dubious reputation of novel reading and circulating libraries, Sheridan's high-profile elopement with Elizabeth Linley (which made him a celebrity before he ever staged a word), and the narrative possibilities conjured up by setting The Rivals in the resort city of Bath. …

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Paperback. Condition: New. David Garrick, the leading actor of his time, was also one of its most accomplished dramatists, and The Clandestine Marriage is perhaps his finest play. Its story centres on the household of a wealthy merchant, Mr. Sterling, whose main concern is that his two daughters marry men of wealth. Fanny has defied her apprentice; her sister Betsey is engaged to be married to Sir John Melvil. But Melvil and his friend Lord Ogleby both fall in love with Fanny. It is up to Lovewell to persuade both men that marriage to Fanny is out of the question-without revealing to them that he has already married her.The action of the play and also its setting (a landscape garden designed after the fashion of the time to provide artificial wildness and 'commanding' views) give ample scope for Garrick and Coleman to satirize the mercantile mind-yet the play's comic spirit holds appeal to those on all points of the political compass. First produced in 1766, The Clandestine Marriage was revived to great acclaim in 1995 in a London production starring Nigel Hawthorne.Full-length plays of the late eighteenth century were usually performed together with short plays (or 'afterpieces') to form a full evening of entertainment. In accordance with that tradition this edition is completed by two of the most interesting examples of the genre: Charles Burney's The Cunning-Man (which in fact was several times performed alongside The Clandestine Marriage during the 1766-67 season) and The Rehearsal; or Bayes in Petticoats by Catherine Clive (who played Mrs. Heidelberg in the original production of The Clandestine Marriage).…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. SCARCE. Very good-. Front wrapper and spine are missng. Rear wrapper is present. Light edgewear to title page (which acts as front wrapper. Text is clean and bright. 82 pages. Drama. DRA1/3222.

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Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 324 pages. 8.75x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Green cloth. Volume two only!! Corners show some light wear, bookplate on endpapers, some foxing to textblock. still a clean and presentable copy, with a solid binding and clean pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Green cloth. Volume one only!! Corners show some light wear, bookplate on endpapers, some foxing to textblock. still a clean and presentable copy, with a solid binding and clean pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Green cloth. Volume six only!! Corners show some light wear, bookplate on endpapers, some foxing to textblock. still a clean and presentable copy, with a solid binding and clean pages.

8vo, pp. 103, [1] epilogue. Fifth edition of one of Colman's earliest works, a highly successful comedy based in part on Fielding's Tom Jones - as the author acknowledges in his preface. This is Colman's first real play, premiered on 12 February 1761.