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Henry Fielding - Plays, Volume II, 1731 - 1734 (Hardcover)
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Henry Fielding - Plays, Volume II, 1731 - 1734 (Hardcover)
Series: The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding
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This is the second of three volumes representing the only modern
edition of Fielding's dramatic works. Most of these plays have not
appeared in print for a century, and never previously in
fully-edited form. Fielding is best known as a classic novelist and
the author of Tom Jones, but like his great model Cervantes, he
came to novel-writing from an important first career in
professional theatre. He wrote twenty-eight plays, including
comedies, satiric extravaganzas, and ballad operas. He was the
leading playwright of his generation, an experimentalist and
entrepreneur of dramatic form who sometimes also brought
contemporary politics and public figures onto his stage with
results even more dramatic off-stage.
This volume presents nine plays from one of the most productive
and successful periods of Fielding's theatre career. One of them,
The Grub-Street Opera, is a ballad opera cheerfully mocking various
public characters including the Prime Minister, Prince of Wales,
and even King and Queen. Another, The Modern Husband, is a dark
comedy attacking the cynical merchandising of sex, marriage, and
influence among what passes for polite society in 1730s London.
Most of the plays in this volume were major hits with long stage
lives in repertory, including The Lottery, The Intriguing
Chambermaid, and two of the great Moliere adaptations of the
century, The Mock Doctor and The Miser. Fielding wrote all four of
those plays as star vehicles for the great Drury Lane musical
actress Catherine Clive.
The plays are given in critical unmodernized texts based on
careful collation of the original editions, with explanatory notes
and commentary on sources, stage history, and critical
reception.All music is included, with appendices giving complete
accounts of textual variation and bibliographic history for each
play.
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