Elizabeth Inchbald

Mrs. Inchbald

When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of religious vocation and society's standards of `proper' womanly behaviour. Her love is legitimized when Dorriforth is released from his vows, but she finds her own unorthodox nature cannot conform to a marriage where her husband continues to be a stern moral guide. With a surenees of touch that prefigures Jane Austen, Elizabeth Inchbald shows that there is no simple answer to their predicament, and that their conflict can only be resolved in the next generation.

A Simple Story

Lovers' Vows (1798), a play by Elizabeth Inchbald arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814), is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe (1780; literally "Love Child," or "Natural Son," as it is often translated), all of which were published between 1798 and 1800.

Lover's Vows

August von Kotzebue

Lovers' Vows, 1798

Or, a Collection of Plays, which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket. Printed Under Authority of the Managers from the Prompt Books ; in Twenty-five Volumes

“The” British Theatre

Richard jun Cumberland

The Brothers. - The West Indian. - The Jew. -First Love. - The Wheel of Fortune

A Collection of Successful Modern Plays as Acted at the Theatres Royal, London

The Modern Theatre

John Tobin

The honey moon. A comedy. 25,5

The British Theatre, Or, a Collection of Plays, which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket, Printed Under Authority of the Managers from the Prompt Books; with Biographical and Critical Remarks by Mrs. Inchbald, in Twenty-five Volumes

Richard Cumberland

The Wheel of Fortune ; a Comedy, in Five Acts ; as Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. By Richard Cumberland ... With Remarks

Every One Has His Fault; a Comedy, in Five Acts

“The” brothers : a comedy

Lovers' Vows is a play by Elizabeth Inchbald, inspired by August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe, literally translated as "Love Child" or "Natural Son." The story tells about love, the broken promise of marriage, and illegitimate birth. The main heroine, Agatha, raises her son in poverty after her lover and family refuse her. As the children grow and time passes, many deeds of the past get reevaluated, and a story receives an unexpected ending.

Lovers' Vows

William Shakespeare

King Lear. - Cymbeline. - Macbeth. - Julius Caesar. - Anthony and Cleopatra

Nature and Art commands a central place in the history of the English Jacobin novel. Published in 1796, the story explores the opposition between the upbringing and actions of Henry Norwynne, an unspoiled “child of nature” who has been reared without books on an African island, and the corrupt conduct of his aristocratic older cousin, William. Inchbald was one of the best-known writers of her time, and Nature and Art represents her most concerted attempt to analyze the effects of education, power, and privilege on human behaviour. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction, contemporary reviews of the novel, and primary source material relating to the novel’s composition and its philosophical influences (including documents by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and William Godwin). Documents on education, political and religious corruption, and African colonization provide further historical context.

Nature and Art

Isaac Bickerstaffe

Love in a village. A comic opera

Elizabeth Inchbald

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