The Tragedy of Tragedies (1731)

ISBN-13: 9781554811632 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 158 str.

Henry Fielding

Opis

Henry Fielding's satirical play The Tragedy of Tragedies is presented in a stand-alone volume with introductory and contextual materials closely based on those found in Volume 3 of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature.

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Introduction
The Tragedy of Tragedies: or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb theGreat
A Note on the Text

The Tragedy of Tragedies: or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great

In Context

• Sources and Satiric Models
• from The Famous History of Tom Thumb (1750)
  from George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, The Rehearsal (1672)
  from William Wagstaffe, A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb (1711)
  from John Gay, The What D’Ye Call It: A Tragi-Comi-Pastoral Farce (1715)
  from Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
  from Alexander Pope, Peri Bathous: or, The Art of Sinking in Poetry (1728)
  from Alexander Pope, The Dunciad Variorum (1729)
  from James Ralph, The Touch-Stone: or, Historical, Critical, Political, Philosophical, and Theological Essays on the Reigning Diversions of the Town (1728)
  from Henry Fielding, Tom Thumb. A Tragedy.… Written by Scriblerus Secundus (1730)

• “Acting Play” to “Reading Play”: Performance, Print, Parody
• from John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards and “Of Heroic Plays: An Essay” (1672)
  from John Dryden, All for Love: or, The World Well Lost (1678)
  from Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the Celebrated Passages, Soliloquies, Similes, Descriptions, and Other Poetical Beauties in the Body of English Plays, Ancient and Modern, Digested Under Proper Topics, 2 vols. (1724)
  from James Thomson, The Tragedy of Sophonisba (1730)

• Reception
• from Advertisements in Contemporary Periodicals (1731)
• from London Evening Post (18–20 March 1731)
  from Daily Post (19 March 1731)
  from Daily Post (22 March 1731)
  from Daily Post (28 April 1731)
• from The Universal Spectator (10 April 1731)
  from The Grub-Street Journal (18 November 1731)
  from William Hatchett and Eliza Haywood, The Opera of Operas; or,Tom Thumb the Great. Altered from The Life and Death of TomThumb the Great. And Set to Musick after the Italian Manner(1733)
  from Observations on the Present Taste for Poetry (1739)
  from Giles Jacob, The Mirrour: or, Satyrical, Panegyrical, Serious, andHumorous on the Present Times (1733)
  from Samuel Foote, Taste. A Comedy of Two Acts (1752)
  from David Erskine Baker, Biographia Dramatica: or, A Companion tothe Playhouse (1764)
  from William Hazlitt, “Of the Comic Writers of the Last Century”(1819)