The Plays of Arthur Murphy


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Originally compiled and published in 1979, this volume contains six plays of Arthur Murphy: The Apprentice; The Upholsterer; The Old Maid; The Citizen; No One's Enemy but His Own; Three Weeks After Marriage.







Plays by Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy


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For this volume George Taylor has edited five plays by two largely forgotten eighteenth-century playwrights, Samuel Foote and Arthur Murphy. The plays are The Minor and The Nabob by Foote and The Citizen, Three Weeks after Marriage and Know Your Own Mind by Murphy. All, apart from the last, are two- or three-act farces, the main popular fare of the eighteenth-century theatre. They are still eminently playable today, each exploring a different aspect of London society. Both playwrights have an acute ear for amusing and socially revealing dialogue, with a deft sense of situation comedy. Foote was an important theatre manager who established the success of the Haymarket Theatre by his particular brand of satire and mimicry. Had Murphy been more assiduous in his theatrical career and maintained good relations with David Garrick, his reputation as a dramatist might now have ranked him alongside Goldsmith and Sheridan.







The Plays of Arthur Murphy


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The Works of Arthur Murphy, Esq: A poetical epistle to Dr. Johnson. The expostulation. Prologues, epilogues, &c. The game of chess, a poem ... from the Scacchia of Vida. Templum famæ, a Latin poem, from the Temple of fame of Mr. Pope. Pope's Ode on solitude, tr. into Latin. Busy curious thirsty fly, in Latin. Gray's churchyard elegy, in Latin. The rival sisters. Prologue, occasioned by the death of Mr. Henderson. Postscript


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