Author: Susanna CentlivrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Basset-Table. A Comedy ... The Second Edition
The Basset Table
Author: Susanna CentlivrePublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1551116782
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Basset Table follows the fortunes of Lady Reveller, who runs a table where her friends play the card game basset, and her struggle to avoid marrying Lord Worthy. Meanwhile, Lady Reveller’s cousin, Valeria, spends her time conducting scientific experiments and dissections, but her father intends to marry her off to the bluff sea-captain Hearty. How can Lady Reveller be persuaded to forego the delights of gambling? And how can Valeria avoid an unwanted marriage? This witty play paints a seductive picture of the thrills of the Restoration gaming table and challenges contemporary stereotypes of the learned lady. Appendices to this Broadview Edition include materials on female education, gambling, and writing for the stage, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century critical writing on Centlivre and The Basset Table.
The Basset-table
Author: Susanna CentlivreThe Basset-table
Author: Susanna CentlivreBritish Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The Basset-table
Author: Susanna CentlivrePublisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781379752462
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T026850 The dedication signed: Susannah Cent-Livre. Also issued as part of: 'Four celebrated comedies written by .. Mrs. Centlivre', London, 1735. London: printed for W. Mears, 1735. 72p.: ill.; 12°
A Bibliography of Works in English on Playing Cards and Gaming
Author: Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1850-1880
Author: The Basset-table
Author: Susanna CentlivreEighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, vol 3
Author: Derek HughesPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040278515
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This six-volume anthology documents the history of women's drama throughout the 18th century, starting with the emergence in 1695-6 of the second generation of women dramatists to Aphra Benn. It includes the work of Catherine Trotter, Mary Pix, Eliza Haywood and Elizabeth Griffith.