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
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, 1977, 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.
25
, 1977, pp. 5-33.
Polwhele, Elizabeth. The Frolicks. Editors Milhous, Judith and Robert D. Hume, Cornell University Press, 1977.