[PDF] The Basset Table A Comedy The Second Edition eBook

Author : Susanna Centlivre
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1551116782

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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.

Author : Susanna Centlivre
Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
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ISBN : 9781379752462

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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°

Author : Derek Hughes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,13 MB
Release : 2024-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040278515

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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.