Plays by Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy
The Minor, The Nabob, The Citizen, Three Weeks After Marriage, Know Your Own Mind

For this volume George Taylor has edited five plays by two largely forgotten eighteenth-century playwrights, Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy.

George Taylor (Edited by)

9780521284677, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 March 1984

248 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.37 kg

For this volume George Taylor has edited five plays by two largely forgotten eighteenth-century playwrights, Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy. The plays are The Minor and The Nabob by Foote and The Citizen, Three Weeks after Marriage and Know Your Own Mind by Murphy. All, apart from the last, are two- or three-act farces, the main popular fare of the eighteenth-century theatre. They are still eminently playable today, each exploring a different aspect of London society. Both playwrights have an acute ear for amusing and socially revealing dialogue, with a deft sense of situation comedy. Foote was an important theatre manager who established the success of the Haymarket Theatre by his particular brand of satire and mimicry. Had Murphy been more assiduous in his theatrical career and maintained good relations with David Garrick, his reputation as a dramatist might now have ranked him alongside Goldsmith and Sheridan.

The Minor
The Nabob
The Citizen
Three Weeks After Marriage
Know Your Own Mind.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]