Some early 18th-c. dramatists (NIVEL AVANZADO)

The continuing Puritan tradition:

William Law, The Absolute Unlawfulness of the Stage Entertainment. 1726.

 
Some notable dramatists:

HENRY FIELDING  (1707-Lisbon, 1754)

_____. Love in Several Masques. Comedy. 1728.
_____. The Author's Farce And the Pleasures of the Town. 1730.
_____. The Tragedy of Tragedies, or Tom Thumb the Great. 1730-31.
_____. The Covent Garden Tragedy. 1732.
_____. The Mock Doctor.1732. Adaptation of Molière's Le Médecin Malgré Lui.
 _____. The Miser. 1733. Adaptation of Molière's L'Avare.
_____. Don Quixote in England. Comedy. 1736.
_____. Pasquin. Farce. 1737.
_____. The Historical Register for the Year 1736. Farce. 1737.

JOHN GAY     (¿1685-1732)



_____. Three Hours After Marriage. Comedy. Written in collaboration with Pope and Arbuthnot. Acted 1717.
_____.  (attr.). Acis and Galatea. Libretto for Handel’s opera. Written c. 1718, pub. 1732.
_____. The Beggar’s Opera. Musical comedy, with music by Pepusch. Premiere at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, 1728.
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_____. Polly. Satirical musical. 1729. (Vs. Walpole; banned before production; 1st prod. 1777).
_____. Achilles. Libretto (opera prod. Covent Garden, 1733).

Another staging style: A Czech production of Acis & Galatea (Gay & Handel)

Some more songs from The Beggar's Opera.






NICHOLAS ROWE  (1674-1718)

_____. The Ambitious Step-Mother. Tragedy. 1700.
_____. Tamerlane. Tragedy. 1701.
_____. The Fair Penitent. Tragedy. 1703. Based on Massinger and Field's The Fatal Dowry.
_____. Ulysses. Drama. 1705.
_____. The Royal Convert. 1707.
_____. The Biter. Comedy.
_____. "Some Account of the Life, &c. of Mr. Wiliam Shakespear." Prefixed to Rowe's ed. of The Works of Mr. William Shakespear. 1709.
_____. The Tragedy of Jane Shore. Acted 1714.
_____. The Tragedy of Lady Jane Grey. 1715.





JAMES THOMSON     (1700-1748)

_____. Sophonisba. Tragedy. 1730.
_____. Agamemnon. Tragedy. 1738.
_____. Tancred and Sigismunda. Tragedy. 1745.



JOSEPH ADDISON         (1672-1719)

_____. Rosamond. Opera. 1707. (Music by Thomas Arne).
_____. Cato: A Tragedy. 1713.
_____. The Drummer. Comedy.

Joseph Addison, English journalist and poet, b. Milston, Wiltshire, son of the rector; st. Charterhouse, Queen's College, Oxford, fellow Magdalen College, Oxford; associated to Whig party; grand Tour 1699-1703; Whig agent and politician, Secretary of State 1718, m. a countess late in life, unhappy marriage.


RICHARD STEELE     (1672-1729)
(Richard Steele, English journalist and dramatist, Whig activist, collab. with Addison; Knighted 1715)
  _____. The Tender Husband. Drama. 1705.
_____.  (Vs. Restoration drama). Spectator 65 (1711).
_____. The Conscious Lovers. Drama. Prod. Nov. 1722.
_____. The Lying Lover. Drama.
_____. Dramatic Works. 1723, 1734.