Author: Henry FieldingPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Plays
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 Works of Henry Fielding, Esq
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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The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews and his friend Mr.Abraham Adams
Author: Henry FieldingThe Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: The history of the life of the late Mr.Jonathan Wild and A journey from this world to the next, &c
Author: Henry FieldingHenry 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.
Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
Author: Claude Julien RawsonPublisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780874139310
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
"This book throws important light on the fiction, drama, and society of eighteenth-century England, as reflected in the career of one of its greatest writers, Henry Fielding (1707-1754). It explores the range of Henry Fielding's career as one of the early masters of the English novel, the leading English playwright of his day, and an influential political journalist, magistrate, and social thinker."--BOOK JACKET.
The Plays of Henry Fielding
Author: Albert J. RiveroPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813912288
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Henry Fielding was one of the most interesting playwrights of his time because of his historical position, similar to that of George Bernard Shaw, and his awareness of what it meant to be a playwright at a time when the native dramatic tradition appeared to have settled down for a long sleep and when the only hope for an awakening lay in such low crowd-pleasers as farces, puppet shows, "laughing" tragedies, and ballad operas. By focusing on the plays themselves, Rivero tells the story of Fielding's dramatic career without burdening the reader with an exhaustive history of contemporary plays and playwrights. He provides us with a clear, critical account of Fielding's dramatic career in terms of trends in contemporary dramatic affairs that help to account for his artistic choices in individual plays.