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Paperback. Condition: New. The Busybody is the most popular comedy by the eighteenth-century playwright Susanna Centlivre. The play centres on two couples trying to form a relationship against the wills of their guardians, and in a battle of wits, playing with many conventions from theatre traditions across the continent, a conc…lusion is eventually reached.Like her predecessor Aphra Behn, Centlivre was immensely successful in her day, drawing huge crowds to extended runs of her numerous plays, but the stabbing male pens of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries decried her work as being louche and dangerous, and her name slowly sunk into obscurity.This edition, published with William Hazlitt's prefatory note and extra material on Centlivre's life and writing, seeks to highlight the dexterity with which she took on the stage.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Busybody is the most popular comedy by the eighteenth-century playwright Susanna Centlivre. The play centres on two couples trying to form a relationship against the wills of their guardians, and in a battle of wits, playing with many conventions from theatre traditions across the contin…ent, a conclusion is eventually reached.Like her predecessor Aphra Behn, Centlivre was immensely successful in her day, drawing huge crowds to extended runs of her numerous plays, but the stabbing male pens of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries decried her work as being louche and dangerous, and her name slowly sunk into obscurity.This edition, published with William Hazlitt's prefatory note and extra material on Centlivre's life and writing, seeks to highlight the dexterity with which she took on the stage. The Busybody centres on two couples trying to form a relationship against the wills of their guardians, and in a battle of wits, playing with many conventions from theatre traditions across the continent, a conclusion is eventually reached. This edition includes a preface by William Hazlitt. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Staged in theatres by successive generations and proving relevant to contemporary audiences, the plays demonstrate the wit, theatrical skill and innovation of their creators in exploring timeless topics from marriage, morality and money to class conflict, rage and sexual desire. An essential resource f…or students, playwrights, colleges, universities and libraries, this collection also provides theatres with the opportunity to programme a range of theatrical classics by women. Plays from: 'Paphnutius' by Hroswitha (extract);'The Tragedy of Mariam' by Elizabeth Cary (extract); 'The Rover' by Aphra Behn; 'A Bold Stroke For A Wife' by Susanna Centlivre; 'De Montfort' by Joanna Baillie; 'Rutherford and Son' by Githa Sowerby; 'The Chalk Garden' by Enid Bagnold; 'Top Girls' by Caryl Churchill (extract); 'Stones in his Pockets' by Marie Jones.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Staged in theatres by successive generations and proving relevant to contemporary audiences, the plays demonstrate the wit, theatrical skill and innovation of their creators in exploring timeless topics from marriage, morality and money to class conflict, rage and sexual desire. An essential resource f…or students, playwrights, colleges, universities and libraries, this collection also provides theatres with the opportunity to programme a range of theatrical classics by women. Plays from: 'Paphnutius' by Hroswitha (extract);'The Tragedy of Mariam' by Elizabeth Cary (extract); 'The Rover' by Aphra Behn; 'A Bold Stroke For A Wife' by Susanna Centlivre; 'De Montfort' by Joanna Baillie; 'Rutherford and Son' by Githa Sowerby; 'The Chalk Garden' by Enid Bagnold; 'Top Girls' by Caryl Churchill (extract); 'Stones in his Pockets' by Marie Jones.
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; a few pages had corner turned; some comments in margins in ink on a few pages; This is perhaps the finest example of Centlivre's masterful plotting of comic intrigue. The soldier Fainwell and Anne Lovely are in love, but their path to the altar is blocked by her guardians, eac…h of whom has a different view of what sort of husband would make the right match. Fainwell resorts to disguises tailored to suit each of the guardians, who together form a gallery of social types. The play thus provides a wide range of opportunity for Centlivre to satirize Tory respectability, religious propriety and capitalist speculative greed - and to give voice to her won strongly Whig views, emphasising cooperation and tolerance: 'Tis liberty of choice that sweetens life.' Yet in the end it is Centlivre's comic muse that give enduring life to the play as one of the most entertaining of 18th century comedies.
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Condition: New. Though critics and literary historians have always had to admit that Susanna Centlivre's comedies were extremely popular, they have tended to devote themselves to a search for evidence in them of supposed deficiencies of 'the female pen,' and to pay as much attention to the playwright's marriages and amorous lias…ons than to the plays themselves. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 202. . 1995. 1st. Paperback. . . . .
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Condition: New. "John O'Brien's excellent edition of The Wonder makes accessible one of the most performed plays of the eighteenth century." -- Lisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois at Chicago Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 206. .… 2003. Paperback. . . . .
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Condition: New. Though critics and literary historians have always had to admit that Susanna Centlivre's comedies were extremely popular, they have tended to devote themselves to a search for evidence in them of supposed deficiencies of 'the female pen,' and to pay as much attention to the playwright's marriages and amorous lias…ons than to the plays themselves. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 202. . 1995. 1st. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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Condition: New. "John O'Brien's excellent edition of The Wonder makes accessible one of the most performed plays of the eighteenth century." -- Lisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois at Chicago Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 206. .… 2003. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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Published by PRENSAS UNIVERSITARIAS DE ZARAGOZA, ZARAGOZA, 2021
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Condition: Nuevo. EL METOMENTODO (1705) LA OBRA DE MAS EXITO DE LA DRAMATURGA SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE, CONTO CON MULTIPLES REPRESENTACIONES BIEN ENTRADO EL SIGLO XIX. LA COMEDIA DE ENREDO NARRA LAS AVENTURAS DE DOS JOVENES PAREJAS DE AMANTES QUE, UTILIZANDO EL INGENIO, CONSIGUE.
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Published by Thomas Hailes Lacy (1856) (Lacy's Acting edition), 1856
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. modern paper wrappers, very good; 54 pages; keywords: drama.
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Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:0713154438.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Busybody is the most popular comedy by the eighteenth-century playwright Susanna Centlivre. The play centres on two couples trying to form a relationship against the wills of their guardians, and in a battle of wits, playing with many conventions from theatre traditions across the contin…ent, a conclusion is eventually reached.Like her predecessor Aphra Behn, Centlivre was immensely successful in her day, drawing huge crowds to extended runs of her numerous plays, but the stabbing male pens of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries decried her work as being louche and dangerous, and her name slowly sunk into obscurity.This edition, published with William Hazlitt's prefatory note and extra material on Centlivre's life and writing, seeks to highlight the dexterity with which she took on the stage. The Busybody centres on two couples trying to form a relationship against the wills of their guardians, and in a battle of wits, playing with many conventions from theatre traditions across the continent, a conclusion is eventually reached. This edition includes a preface by William Hazlitt. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Published by for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown (1808) (Inchbald's Theatre series), 1808
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. as performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane, printed under the authority of the managers from the prompt book, with remarks by Mrs Inchbald, modern paper wrappers, ex Hammersmith Public Libraries with their blind stamps, frontispiece, very good. 54 pages; keywords: drama.
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. as performed at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane and Covent Garden, printed under the authority of the managers from the prompt book, with remarks by Mrs Inchbald, modern paper wrappers, ex Hammersmith Public Libraries with their blind stamps, frontispiece, advertisement leaf, very good. 82 pages;… keywords: drama.
