Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988.
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George Farquhar
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Standard Name: Farquhar, George
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Jane Wiseman | Also in 1701, before JW
's the play appeared, Abel Boyer
included in his Letters of Wit, Politicks and Morality several writings by her: letters (under the name of Daphne) to George Farquhar
and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Centlivre | Stories about her early affairs with Anthony Hammond
and George Farquhar
probably arose from a desire to link her name with those of high-profile and romantic men. |
| Friends, Associates | Catharine Trotter | During her London years she was an ally of Damaris Masham
, but quarrelled with Delarivier Manley
. She found both a patron and a friend in Sarah, Lady Piers
(who wrote poetry herself). She... |
| Friends, Associates | Susanna Centlivre | SC
's friends included the dramatist George Farquhar
, the actress Anne Oldfield
, the writers Abel Boyer
, Tom Brown
, Sarah Fyge
, Sarah, Lady Piers
, and all the other women writing... |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Wiseman | She was a friend and correspondent of George Farquhar
and the future Susanna Centlivre
; the fact that she addressed a poem to Aphra Behn
and that Abel Boyer
published letters by her may indicate... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Timberlake Wertenbaker | In another dazzling multiple frame of reference, TW
adapts The Playmaker, a novel by Thomas Keneally
whose action takes place in 1789, a year after the settlement of Australia, among a group of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Hannah Cowley | The title, flagging a gender-role reversal from George Farquhar
's Beaux' Stratagem, 1707, suggests a return to the wit and worldliness of Restoration comedy. The sub-plot in which Sir George Touchwood tries to keep... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Davys | MD
makes skilful use of letters to project character, political issues, and gender interaction. Her use of significant dates (All Saints' Day, November the fifth) links her with the prophetic tradition of Lady Eleanor Douglas |
| Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | This was CT
's greatest success. The young George Farquhar
much admired it; it was even praised by Charles Gildon
. |
| Literary Setting | Maureen Duffy | MD
intersperses Charke's work with a modern-day story-line. She alters Charke's first-person narrative to third-person, and when Charke, dressed as a man, is working as a waiter in a club, Duffy calls her not Charlotte... |
| Textual Features | Catherine Gore | CG
calls Quid Pro Quoa bustling play of the Farquhar
, or George Colman
school. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34. 28 |
| Textual Production | Judith Sargent Murray | About a year after seeing a successful performance of one of Hannah More
's Sacred Dramas, JSM
contributed her first theatre epilogue to an amateur performance at Gloucester in January 1790 of George Farquhar |
| Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | The allusion to Aphra Behn
is deliberate. SC
's correspondents included George Farquhar
. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952. 19, 24ff |
| Textual Production | Susanna Centlivre | Farquhar
contributed a prologue. The theatre again presented this as written by a man, and it was published as by the Author of The Gamester and Love's Contrivance (which had both appeared anonymously). SC
's... |
Timeline
By December 1698: George Farquhar's first play, Love and a...
Writing climate item
By December 1698
George Farquhar
's first play, Love and a Bottle, was opened on stage.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
8 April 1706: George Farquhar's comedy The Recruiting Officer...
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8 April 1706
George Farquhar
's comedy The Recruiting Officer was first performed at Drury Lane
.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
8 March 1707: The last of George Farquhar's six comedies,...
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8 March 1707
The last of George Farquhar
's six comedies, The Beaux' Stratagem, opened at the Haymarket
.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
18 December 1714: A new theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields (built...
Building item
18 December 1714
A new theatre
in Lincoln's Inn Fields (built by Christopher Rich
) opened under his son, John
.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 327, 334
This is the first theatre season for which records are complete.
31 October 1729: Another new London theatre opened: Goodman's...
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31 October 1729
Another new London theatre opened: Goodman's Fields
, on Ayliff Street in Whitechapel.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 3, 12
December 1731: Peg Woffington, then a little-known but rising...
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December 1731
Peg Woffington
, then a little-known but rising Irish actress, scored a resounding stage success in Dublin in the breeches role of Sir Harry Wildair, hero of George Farquhar
's comedy The Constant Couple (first...
10 February 1786: For her benefit night at Covent Garden Theatre,...
Building item
10 February 1786
For her benefit night at Covent Garden Theatre
, Frances Abington
chose to play the comic male part of the servant Scrub in Farquhar
's Beaux' Stratagem.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
5: 820, 861
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