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The miser : a comedy / written by Thomas Shadwell.
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692.
- Series:
- Three centuries of drama. English, 1642-1700.
- Three centuries of English and American plays, 1500-1830.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 92 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm
- 6x9 in.
- monochrome
- positive
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Hobart Kemp, 1672.
- Notes:
- For a listing of titles in each box consult Three centuries of English and American plays.
- Based on: L'avare / Molière.
- "Acted by His Majesties servants, at the Theater Royal."
- Collation: Title (verso blank); To the Right Honourable Charles Lord Buckhurst, A2; reader, [A3] (verso Prologue); The actors names, [A4] (verso blank); Text B-M4, N3 ([N3] Epilogue, verso blank)
- The main plot is almost a translation of Molières L'Avare, but many new characters and scenes have been added. cf. "Reader," 3d prelim. leaf; Miles, Influence of Molière, p. 234.
- For description of another edition of same year, "Printed for Thomas Collins and John Ford," see Hoe's Catalogue of books by English authors ... before 1700.
- Book plate: Ex mvso Hvthii.
- Master microform held by: Readex.
- Microopaque. New York, N.Y. : Readex Microprint Corporation, 1953. 2 microopaques ; 15 x 23 cm. (Three centuries of drama. English, 1642-1700) ; (Three centuries of English and American plays, 1500-1830).
- Cited in:
- Woodward & McManaway 1083
- OCLC:
- 10000011
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