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The complete plays of Frances Burney / edited by Peter Sabor ; contributing editor, Geoffrey M. Sill.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
- Standardized Title:
- Plays
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama (Comedy)--18th century.
- English drama (Tragedy)--18th century.
- English literature--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (783 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1995-
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This two-volume set of the comedies and tragedies of Frances Burney (1752-1840) reveals her remarkable, yet little-known, talent as a dramatist. Compiled from the original manuscripts, it includes a substantial general introduction, headnotes to each play, explanatory notes, and variant readings.
- Contents:
- ""Volume I""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Short Titles""; ""General Introduction""; ""Textual Introduction""; ""Chronology""; ""The Witlings (1778�80)""; ""Love and Fashion (1798�99)""; ""The Woman-Hater (1800�02)""; ""A Busy Day (1800�02)""; ""Appendix: Literary Allusions in The Witlings and The Woman-Hater""; ""Volume II""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Edwy and Elgiva (1788�95)""; ""Hubert De Vere (1790�97)""; ""The Siege of Pevensey (1790�91)""; ""Elberta (1791�1814)""; ""Appendix: The Triumphant Toadeater (1798)""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-6555-8
- OCLC:
- 191819199
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