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The Clandestine Marriage (Paperback)
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The Clandestine Marriage (Paperback)
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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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