The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Atkins | She gives her chapters epigraphs, many of them eighteenth-century: the Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, quoted in French on the title-page and to open volume three; Molière
and Pope
's Rape of the Lock... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | This satirizes as Sir Patient Fancy a strongly Whiggish London alderman, Sir Patience Ward
. It borrows a good deal from Molière
: chiefly, and with acknowledgement, from Le malade imaginaire, but also from... |
Performance of text | Susanna Centlivre | SC
's Molière
adaptation Love's Contrivance; or, Le Medecin Malgre Luy opened anonymously at Drury Lane
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 2: 37 Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press. 51 |
Education | Susanna Centlivre | It was said that she read Molière
at twelve, and that she disguised herself as a boy in order to study at Cambridge University
. All this, however, belongs to a dubious area of fictionalisation... |
Education | Mary Cowden Clarke | Some years after her brother Alfred's time at Boulogne in France, she followed him in staying in the same family, that of Monsieur Bonnefoy
, who ran a school in his house. Lessons, theatre... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Gaskell | This story is a comic reworking of various fairy tales including Dick Whittington, Jack the Giant Killer, and Bluebeard. The last of these is suggested by the bereaved wife's lament (with reference... |
Performance of text | Augusta Gregory | The Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, produced AG
's The Doctor in Spite of Himself, translated from Molière
's Le médecin malgré lui, the first of her Molière translations.. Saddlemyer, Ann, and Augusta Gregory. “Foreword and History of First Productions”. The Tragedies and Tragic Comedies of Lady Gregory, Colin Smythe, p. v - xiii. x |
Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | Knowing she had not long to live, AG
published Three Last Plays, a volume which included The Would-Be Gentleman (adapted from Molière
), Sancho's Master (from Don Quixote by Cervantes
), and her last play, Dave. Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum. 285 Mikhail, Edward Halim. Lady Gregory: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Whitston. 29 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Hervey | The best part of the novel is the earliest, in which the scene is set with the girls' education. Their sexist father, Justice Bumble (who loves money and considers women as incumbrances), Hervey, Elizabeth. Melissa and Marcia; or, the Sisters: A Novel. William Lane. 1: 3 |
Textual Production | Anne-Thérèse de Lambert | ATL
intended Réflexions nouvelles sur les femmes partly as a riposte to Molière
's mockery of learned women in Les Femmes Savantes. She lent the manuscript of this work to a friend, who broke... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne-Thérèse de Lambert | The Author's Preface to Réflexions begins disarmingly with the writer following her rambling thoughts, but shifts to a muted challenge when she declares herself offended to see Men so blind to their own interest, as... |
Textual Production | Liz Lochhead | LL
published Tartuffe, A Translation into Scots from the Original by Molière: she adapts slightly from the original, moving the setting to the end of the First World War, and uses rhyming couplets throughout. Lochhead, Liz. Bagpipe Muzak. Penguin. prelims Molière,. Miseryguts; and, Tartuffe. Translator Lochhead, Liz, Nick Hern. xi |
Textual Production | Liz Lochhead | Commenting on the preponderance of Scots translations of Molière, LL
observes: We might go a bit light on the philosophy, but at least in ScotlandMolière
is funny. Molière,. Miseryguts; and, Tartuffe. Translator Lochhead, Liz, Nick Hern. ix |
Performance of text | Liz Lochhead | LL
followed this with Miseryguts, an adaptation altered to fit the contour of present-day Scotland of Molière
's Le misanthrope. Its world premiere took place at the Royal Lyceum Theatre
in Edinburgh... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lucas Malet | But the context is still the fashionable jungle. Mr Perry can conceive of no higher glory than wealth and social success, and is ruthless in pursuit of these for his daughter and thus himself. Fat... |