The last two acts incorporate two dialogue songs, by Durfey
and Motteux
, set to music by Eccles
.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 488-9
Timeline
1676: Thomas D'Urfey's comedy Madam Fickle presented...
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1676
Thomas D'Urfey
's comedy Madam Fickle presented as heroine a linguistic virtuoso, tricking and triumphing over an assortment of foolish and misogynist suitors.
Hughes, Derek. “The Masked Woman Revealed; or, the prostitute and the playwright in Aphra Behn criticism”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 2, 2000, pp. 149-64.
159
Probably 23 April 1689: Mr and Mrs Priest's girls' school in Chelsea...
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Probably 23 April 1689
Mr
and Mrs Priest's girls' school in Chelsea put on the first (private) performance of Dido and Aeneas, by Henry Purcell
.
Campbell, Margaret. Henry Purcell, Glory of His Age. Oxford University Press, 1995.
130, 137, 146
Wharton, Philip, Duke of. The Poetical Works of Philip, late Duke of Wharton. Edmund Curll, 1731.
