Author: Henry FieldingPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Plays
Author: Henry FieldingThe Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Plays and poems
Author: Henry FieldingThe Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq
Author: Henry FieldingPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq
Author: Henry FieldingThe Works of Henry Fielding, Esq
Author: Henry FieldingThe Works of Henry Fielding, Esq
Author: Henry FieldingTHE WORKS OF HENRY FIELDING, Esq[ue] IN TWELVE VOLUMES. WITH The LIFE of the AUTHOR.
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Author: Henry FieldingThe Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Miscellaneous writings
Author: Henry FieldingPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Miscellanies by Henry Fielding, Esq
Author: Henry FieldingPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819552549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Contains the fantasy, A Journey from This World to the Next, and two plays: the farce Eurydice, and The Wedding Day, a revision of an early intrigue comedy. Volume Three of Henry Fielding's Miscellanies, first published as a three-volume set in 1743, consists in its entirety of a major work of fiction, The History of the life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great. Jonathan Wild takes its title from the 'thief-taker' and gangleader of that name who has hanged in 1725, but in Fielding's hands the history of Wild is transformed into a mock-historical work of sustained irony aimed at all who would be 'great men'. The general introduction to this edition sets the novel against its historical and biographical background and argues against the view, common and since the mid-nineteenth century, that it is a personal satire directed at the figure of Sir Robert Walpole. In both the general and the textual introductions, the editors also offer a fresh view on questions about the date and history of the work's composition. Full explanatory notes and commentary place Fielding's allusions and details in their contemporary context. As in previous volumes of the Wesleyan Edition, this provides a critical, unmodernized text, based on the Greg-Bowers 'Rationale of Copy-text'. The version is that of the first edition, with an appendix giving al variants in wording and presentation of the 1754 revision. In his introduction the textual editor lays out the rationale for his choice version. This volume also includes, for the first time in a modern edition, Fielding's list of subscribers to the Miscellanies, along with detailed biographical notes and an analysis of the subscription list by textual author.
Henry Fielding - Plays, Volume II, 1731 - 1734
Author: Thomas LockwoodPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 019156902X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
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 Molière 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.