The Rivals and Polly Honeycombe (1775,1760)

ISBN-13: 9781554810062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 324 str.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Opis

"These two comedies, about 'novel-reading girls gone wild, ' make for an inspired pairing; in this edition, David A. Brewer makes the pairing pay off handsomely." -- Stuart Sherman, Fordham University

Spis treści

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
George Colman the Elder and Richard Brinsley Sheridan: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Texts

Polly Honeycombe, A Dramatick Novel of One Act, George Colman the Elder

The Rivals, A Comedy, Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Appendix A: The Original Casts of the Plays

Appendix B: Novel-Reading and Its Discontents

1. From [Samuel Johnson], The Rambler (31 March 1750)
2. From [Francis Coventry], The History of Pompey the Little:or, The Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog (1752)
3. [William Whitehead], The World (10 May 1753)
4. From [William Dodd], The Sisters; or, The History of Lucy and Caroline Sanson, Entrusted to a false Friend (1754)
5. From [Owen Ruffhead], The Monthly Review (1761)
6. From The Critical Review (1765)
7. From [James Fordyce], Sermons to Young Women (1766)
8. From [Hester Chapone], Letters on the Improvement ofthe Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady (1773)
9. From The Monthly Review (1773)
10. From [William Enfield], The Monthly Review (1775)
11. From The Critical Review (1775)

Appendix C: “Such Paragraphs in the News-Papers!”

1. Report of Sheridan’s Elopement with Elizabeth Linley, The Daily Advertiser (26 March 1772)
2. Thomas Mathews’s Denunciation of Sheridan, The Bath Chronicle (9 April 1772)
3. Report of the First Duel, The London Evening-Post (2-5 May 1772)
4. Contradiction of The London Evening-Post Report, The Bath Chronicle (7 May 1772)
5. Mathews’s Apology to Sheridan, The Bath Chronicle (7 May 1772)
6. Draft of an unsent (?) letter from Sheridan (c. late June 1772)
7. Report of Sheridan’s Second Duel with Mathews, The Bath Chronicle (2 July 1772)
8. Report of Sheridan’s Wounding in the Second Duel, The London Chronicle (2-4 July 1772)
9. Another Report of the Second Duel, The London Evening-Post (2-4 July 1772)
10. Report on Sheridan’s Wounds, The Public Advertiser (8 July 1772)
11. Another Report on Sheridan’s Wounds, The Bath Chronicle (9 July 1772)
12. From “Anecdotes of the Maid of Bath (With an Elegant Engraving),” The London Magazine (September 1772)
13. Yet Another Report on Sheridan’s Wounds, The St. James’s Chronicle (10-12 November 1772)
14. “Miss Linley, the syren of Bath,” The Westminster Magazine (March 1773)
15. Report of a Sheridan-Linley Marriage, The Bath Chronicle (1 April 1773)
16. Letter probably written by Sheridan, The Bath Chronicle (15 April 1773)
17. Report on The Rivals, The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser (17 January 1775)
18. Another Report on The Rivals, The Town and Country Magazine (January 1775)

Appendix D: The Narrative Possibilities of Bath

1. From [Christopher Anstey], The New Bath Guide: or, Memoirs of the B—r—d Family. In a Series of Poetical Epistles (1766)
2. From [Tobias Smollett], The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
3. Report of an Elopement, The Bath Chronicle (9 September 1773)

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