The plays of Edward Thompson / edited, with an introd. by Catherine Neal Parke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Edward, 1738?-1786.

Contributor:

Parke, Catherine Neal.

Series:

Eighteenth-century English drama

Eighteenth-century English drama.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

approximately 250 pages : portrait ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Garland Pub., 1980.

Notes:

Reprint of the 1775 ed. of The fair Quaker, printed for T. Lowndes and T. Becket, London; of the 1776 ed. of The syrens, printed for G. Kearsly, London; and of the 1776 ed. of the Seraglio, printed for T. Evans, London.

Also includes typescript for the 1773 ms. for a musical reworking of Shakespeare's Love's labour's lost with alterations in Thompson's hand, from the Folger Library's Garrick prompt book collection and typescripts of 3 mss. from the Larpent collection of the Huntington Library--the 1776 ms. of The hobby horse, the 1776 ms. of St. Helena, and the 1777 ms. of a new scene for The beggar's opera.

Includes bibliographical reference.

ISBN:

0824036085 :

OCLC:

5707076