Judith Milhous

Standard Name: Milhous, Judith

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Birth Elizabeth Polwhele
EP the future dramatist was born—if she was indeed the EP with whom her editors, Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume , identify her.
Polwhele, Elizabeth. “Introduction: A ’Lost’ Play and its Context”. The Frolicks, edited by Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume, Cornell University Press, pp. 13-49.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
death Elizabeth Polwhele
This sermon was written and preached by Samuel Slater .
Milhous and Hume acknowledge that EP the writer may have been somebody quite different and as yet untraced.
Polwhele, Elizabeth. “Introduction: A ’Lost’ Play and its Context”. The Frolicks, edited by Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume, Cornell University Press, pp. 13-49.
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Literary responses Elizabeth Polwhele
Judith Milhous calls it a throwback to types of play popular before the Civil War, and remarks on its clanking rhyme,précieux sentiment, and witches reminiscent of Davenant 's adapted Macbeth.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Features Elizabeth Polwhele
The Frolicks is low London comedy—lively, realistic, and distinctly bawdy.
Polwhele, Elizabeth. “Introduction: A ’Lost’ Play and its Context”. The Frolicks, edited by Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume, Cornell University Press, pp. 13-49.
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Milhous distinguishes four plot-lines, all conventional: that of the imaginary cuckold (most famously used a century later by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in The School...
Textual Production Frances Boothby
Editors Judith Milhous and Robert Hume think the likeliest date for the play's performance is spring 1669; critic Jane Milling thinks it could equally well have opened at one end or the other of the...
Textual Production Elizabeth Polwhele
EP wrote her first surviving play, The Faithful Virgins, a rhyming tragedy, which was apparently performed by the Duke's Company at Lincoln's Inn Fields .
It has been dated June 1663, but editors Milhous

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Texts

Polwhele, Elizabeth. “Introduction: A ’Lost’ Play and its Context”. The Frolicks, edited by Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume, Cornell University Press, 1977, pp. 13-49.
Hume, Robert D., and Judith Milhous. “Some ’Lost’ English Plays, 1600-1700”. Huntington Library Bulletin, Vol.
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, pp. 5-33.
Polwhele, Elizabeth. The Frolicks. Editors Milhous, Judith and Robert D. Hume, Cornell University Press, 1977.