The Comical Revenge
The Comical Revenge | |
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Written by | George Etherege |
Date premiered | March 1664 |
Place premiered | Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, London |
Original language | English |
Genre | Restoration Comedy |
The Comical Revenge; Or, Love In A Tub is a 1664 comedy play by the English writer George Etherege. First staged by the Duke's Company, it premiered at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre. It is one of the earliest Restoration Comedies. The play holds importance for the literary historian for Etherege's employment of two separate language styles.[1] The style employed in the verbal sparring between Sir Frederick and the Widow would set the standard for the language of the Restoration comedy. The subtitle refers to the comical subplot which deals with the locking up of Dufoy, servant of Sir Frederick, in a tub by the chambermaids Betty and Lettice.
The original cast included Thomas Betterton as Lord Beauford, Henry Harris as Sir Frederick Frollick, William Smith as Colonel Bruce, Henry Norris as Lovis, James Nokes as Sir Nicholas Cully, Cave Underhill as Palmer, Samuel Sandford as Wheadle, Mary Betterton as Graciana, Moll Davis as Aurelia and Jane Long as Widow.[2]
References
Bibliography
- Fisk, Deborah Payne & Canfield, J. Douglas Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theater. University of Georgia Press, 2010.
- Van Lennep, W. The London Stage, 1660-1800: Volume One, 1660-1700. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960.
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- Aphra Behn
- Susanna Centlivre
- Colley Cibber
- William Congreve
- John Dryden
- Thomas D'Urfey
- George Etherege
- George Farquhar
- Edward Howard
- James Howard
- Robert Howard
- Thomas Otway
- Charles Sedley
- Thomas Shadwell
- Thomas Southerne
- Richard Steele
- John Vanbrugh
- George Villiers
- William Wycherley
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- The Adventures of Five Hours (1663)
- The Comical Revenge (1664)
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- She Would If She Could (1668)
- An Evening's Love (1668)
- Sir Solomon Single (1670)
- Love in a Wood (1671)
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- Epsom Wells (1672)
- Marriage à la mode (1672)
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- Love in the Dark (1675)
- The Country Wit (1676)
- The Plain-Dealer (1676)
- The Man of Mode (1676)
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- A Fond Husband (1677)
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- The Woman Captain (1679)
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- Love and a Bottle (1698)
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