George Colman

A Dramatick Novel of One Act. As it is Now Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane

Polly Honeycombe

Henry Fielding

Oliver Goldsmith

David Garrick

John O'Keeffe

The Modern Husband * The Clandestine Marriage * She Stoops to Conquer * Wild Oats This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the century's drama. Fielding's The Modern Husband , written before the 1737 Licensing Act that restricted political and social comment, depicts wife-pandering and widespread social corruption. InGarrick and Colman's The Clandestine Marriage two lovers marry in defiance of parental wishes and rue the consequences. She Stoops to Conquer explores the comic and not-so-comic consequences of mistaken identity, and in Wild Oats, the 'strolling player' Rover is a beacon of hope at a time ofunrest. Part of the Oxford English Drama series, this edition has modern-spelling texts, critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation and an informative bibliography.

She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies

The Review; or, the Wags of Windsor: a musical farce, in two acts

With an Original Life of the Author ...

The Dramatic Works of George Colman the Younger

Originally composed and published in 1981, this second book makes up two volumes of the plays of George Colman the Younger. Versatile, industrious, talented, George Colman the Younger (1762-1836) followed Sheridan as England's most popular playwright. He wrote not only monologues, farces, pantomimes, comic operas, and straight comedies, but also hybrid three-act anticipations of melodrama.

Volume 2

The Plays of George Colman the Younger

The English merchant. The man of business. Man and wife; or, The Shakespeare jubilee

The Dramatick Works of George Colman ...: The English merchant. The man of business. Man and wife; or, The Shakespeare jubilee

Broad Grins, My Nightgown&Slippers, and other humorous works, prose and poetical ... Now first collected. With life and anecdotes of the author edited by George B. Buckstone

The Poor Gentleman, Etc

The Mountaineers; a Play in Three Acts [and in Prose.] [By George Colman, the Younger.]

The Iron Chest ; The Heir at Law ; John Bull ; The Poor Gentleman

The Mountaineers

The poor gentleman, a comedy

Reproduction of the original: Inkle and Yarico by George Colman

Inkle and Yarico

Excerpt from The Review, or the Wags of Windsor: A Musical Farce With dulness should the son and sire be curst, And dunce the second follow dunce the first The shallow stripling's vain attempt you'll mock, And damn him - for a chip of the old block. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Musical Farce (Classic Reprint)

The Review, Or the Wags of Windsor

The Heir at Law. A Comedy in Five Acts, Etc

A Comedy, in Five Acts

The Heir at Law

An Opera; In Three Acts; As Performed At The Theatres-Royal In Covent-Garden And The Hay-Market. First Acted (in the Hay-market) on Saturday, August 11, 1787

George Colman

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