Henry Fielding - Plays
Volume I, 1728-1731
Series: The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 March 2004
- ISBN 9780199257898
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages808 pages
- Size 241x164x45 mm
- Weight 1381 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftone frontispiece; numerous music examples 0
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Short description:
This is the first of three volumes of plays by Henry Fielding, whose vibrant early career in theatre has been overshadowed by his later fame as the author of novels like Tom Jones. This edition makes his plays, and his rich gift for theatrical comedy, accessible for the first time in modern form.
MoreLong description:
This is the first of three volumes representing the only modern edition of Fielding's dramatic works. Most of these plays have not appeared in print for a century, and never previously in edited form. Fielding came to the novel-writing for which he is best known after an important first career in professional theatre. He wrote twenty-eight plays, including comedies, satiric extravaganzas, and ballad operas. He was the leading playwright of his generation, an experimentalist and entrepreneur in a cheerfully mocking form of drama journalistically devoted to contemporary experience, culture, and politics. This volume presents the first seven of these plays in a critical unmodernized edition based on the original texts, with explanatory notes and commentary on sources, stage history, and critical reception, as well as appendices accounting for textual variation, bibliography, and musical sources.
An enterprise like the Wesleyan Fielding-a tremendous achievement by any reasonable evaluation-will be immensely useful to any critic or scholar trying to understand Fielding's outlook and the contexts in which his works were read.
Table of Contents:
General Introduction
Plays
Love in Several Masques
The Temple Beau
The Author's Farce
Tom Thumb
The Coffee-House Politician
The Tragedy of Tragedies
The Letter-Writers
Appendices
Music
Word-Division
Critical Apparatus
Bibliography
