Robert D. Hume

Standard Name: Hume, Robert D.

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, 1977, 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, 1977, pp. 13-49.
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Literary responses Catharine Trotter
Genest liked this no better than CT 's other plays, finding it unnatural. Recent commentators have in this case been no more favourable, Nancy Cotton finding it priggish and Robert Humesentimental mush.
qtd. in
Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang, 1986.
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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

Hume, Robert D. Henry Fielding and the London Theatre, 1728-1737. Clarendon, 1988.
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. “Jeremy Collier and the Future of the London Theatre in 1698”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford.
Hume, Robert D., and Judith Milhous. “Some ’Lost’ English Plays, 1600-1700”. Huntington Library Bulletin, Vol.
25
, 1977, pp. 5-33.
Polwhele, Elizabeth. The Frolicks. Editors Milhous, Judith and Robert D. Hume, Cornell University Press, 1977.