A Study of the Plays of Thomas D'Urfey, with a Reprint of A Fool's Preferment
Title | A Study of the Plays of Thomas D'Urfey, with a Reprint of A Fool's Preferment PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Stanley Forsythe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 110 |
Release | 1917 |
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A Study of the Plays of Thomas D'Urfey. With a Reprint of A Fool's Preferment
Title | A Study of the Plays of Thomas D'Urfey. With a Reprint of A Fool's Preferment PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Stanley Forsythe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9781022269545 |
Study of the Plays of Thomas D'Urfey with a Reprint of "A Fool's Preferment, Or, the Three Dukes of Dunstable
Title | Study of the Plays of Thomas D'Urfey with a Reprint of "A Fool's Preferment, Or, the Three Dukes of Dunstable PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Stanley Forsythe |
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Release | 1917 |
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A Study of the Plays O Thoas D'Urfey, with a Reprint of A Fool's Preferment
Title | A Study of the Plays O Thoas D'Urfey, with a Reprint of A Fool's Preferment PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Stanley Forsythe |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1916 |
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A Study of the Plays of Thomas D'Urfey, with a Reprint of A Fool's Preferment
Title | A Study of the Plays of Thomas D'Urfey, with a Reprint of A Fool's Preferment PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Stanley Forsythe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | English drama |
ISBN |
A Study of the Plays of Thomas D'Urfey
Title | A Study of the Plays of Thomas D'Urfey PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Stanley Forsythe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 1916 |
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Marriage-Hater Matched, The. A comedy by Thomas Durfey
Title | Marriage-Hater Matched, The. A comedy by Thomas Durfey PDF eBook |
Author | Manuel J. Gómez-Lara |
Publisher | Edicions Universitat Barcelona |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2014-09-23 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 844753829X |
When young Phoebe asks Sir Philip Freewit, the man who has got her with child, to fulfil his promise and marry her, he replies with shock: “My wife! Then I should never love thee more”. Thomas Durfey’s The Marriage-Hater Matched (1692) pokes fun at the figure of the libertine rake, which had become a favourite dramatic type with Restoration theatregoers, and forces him in the end to make up for his past recklessness. Besides the marriage-hater and the two women that vie for his affections, a remarkable gallery of secondary characters people this amusing comedy: a Frenchified lady fawning on her lap-dog, a fat clownish Dutchman laughing at his own jokes, a impertinent match-making widow obsessed with food, a peevish old-fashioned courtier, a pert lisping ingénue and two rude boobies bearing the names of Greek philosophers. This first modern critical edition offers a fully annotated text in addition to an introduction that situates the comedy in its literary and theatrical contexts. ;The editors discuss at length how Durfey drew upon successful comic modes while at the same complying with the moral values advocated by the new monarchs, William and Mary (1688-1702).