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Plays by Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy - The Minor, The Nabob, The Citizen, Three Weeks After Marriage, Know Your Own Mind (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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Plays by Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy - The Minor, The Nabob, The Citizen, Three Weeks After Marriage, Know Your Own Mind (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
Series: British and American Playwrights
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For this volume George Taylor has edited five plays by two largely
forgotten eighteenth-century playwrights, Samuel Foote and Arthur
Murphy. The plays are The Minor and The Nabob by Foote and The
Citizen, Three Weeks after Marriage and Know Your Own Mind by
Murphy. All, apart from the last, are two- or three-act farces, the
main popular fare of the eighteenth-century theatre. They are still
eminently playable today, each exploring a different aspect of
London society. Both playwrights have an acute ear for amusing and
socially revealing dialogue, with a deft sense of situation comedy.
Foote was an important theatre manager who established the success
of the Haymarket Theatre by his particular brand of satire and
mimicry. Had Murphy been more assiduous in his theatrical career
and maintained good relations with David Garrick, his reputation as
a dramatist might now have ranked him alongside Goldsmith and
Sheridan.
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