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Rowe, Nicholas - Otway, Thomas - Lillo, George The English Theatre - Tragedies Volume II [only] - Jane Shore. A Tragedy In Five Acts [with] Venice Preserved. A Tragedy, In Five Acts [with] George Barnwell ; Or, The London Merchant. A Tragedy, In Five Acts [with] Fatal Curiosity : A Tragedy, In Three Acts
Printed by D S Maurice, Fenchurch Street ; sold by T Hughes, 35 Ludgate Street ; J Bysh 52 Paternoster Row ; & J Cumming, Dublin 1817 reprint.
Original mottled boards, VG. 54+60+[i]+50+40pp, series title page, b/w frontis & title vignette to each play, the upper board has a paper label showing the series title & vignette, paper label to to the spine, boards rather worn & faded with the spine creased, pages uncut, but a nice copy, rare in the original boards. Odd volume of the 'English Theatre' series containing 4 18th century tragedies. Jane Shore is Rowe's attempt at a Shakespearian tragedy with language to suit. Venice Preserv'd is Otway's most famous work & is a play of plots & intrigue written at the end of his career. The London Merchant by Lillo was described by the actor Theophilus Cibber as 'almost a new species of tragedy, wrote on an uncommon subject'. The play describes the fall of a London apprentice, led by a temptress into debauchery & murder. Fatal Curiosity, also by Lillo is a domestic tragedy, written in verse & telling of an old couple who murder a stranger for his cash only to discover he is their long lost son.
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25.00 GBP
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