The Rehearsal: A Comedy as it is acted at the Theatre -Royal in Drury- lane and Covent- Garden by George (Villiers) late (2nd) Duke of Buckingham
by VILLIERS, GEORGE, (2nd. Duke of Buckingham.)
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London: Wenman, Fleet street., 1777. Very Good +. 19pp. With a nice copper engraved frontis.. Crudley bound in grey paper covered boards and a red cloth spine.Buckingham wrote occasional verses and satires showing undoubted (but undeveloped) poetic gifts, a collection of which, containing however many pieces not from his pen, was first published by Tom Brown in 1704; while a few extracts from a commonplace book of Buckingham of some interest are given in an article in the Quarterly Review of January 1898. He was the author of The Rehearsal, an amusing and clever satire on the heroic drama and especially on Dryden's The Conquest of Granada (first performed on 7 December 1671, at the Theatre Royal, and first published in 1672), a deservedly popular play which was imitated by Henry Fielding in Tom Thumb the Great, and by Sheridan in The Critic. Buckingham also published two adapted plays: a version of John Fletcher's The Chances (1682) and The Restoration or Right will take place, from Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster (publ. 1714); and also The Battle of Sedgmoor and The Militant Couple (publ. 1704). The latest edition of his works is that by T. Evans (2 vols. 8vo, 1775). Another work is named by Wood, A Demonstration of the Deity, of which there is now no trace.
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- Title
- The Rehearsal
- Author
- VILLIERS, GEORGE, (2nd. Duke of Buckingham.)
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- Used - Very Good +
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- Wenman, Fleet street.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1777
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