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Woman is a riddle : a comedy acted at the theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields / by Mr. Christopher Bullock.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3328.B5 A7 1735
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bullock, Christopher, 1690?-1724.
Contributor:
Savage, Richard, -1743.
Price, Lucy Rodd, active 1679.
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681.
Language:
English
Physical Description:
71 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 18 cm (12mo)
Edition:
The third edition.
Place of Publication:
London : Printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brookes ... and T. Lownds ..., 1759.
Notes:
According to Johnson, Savage wrote the play, which he afterwards turned over to Bullock, who altered it slightly and produced it as his own; but Baker claims that both authors took it from a translation of Calderon's La dama duende by Mrs. Price. Cf. Johnson's Life of Savage; Baker, D.E. Biographia dramatica (1782) v. 2, p. 410; and Dict. nat. biog.
Local Notes:
With: The rehearsal / George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. London : Printed for W. Feales ... R. Wellington ... J. Wellington, A. Bettesworth, and F. Clay in trust for B. Wellington, 1735.
OCLC:
16109932

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