Butler, Sarah. “Introduction”. Irish Tales, edited by Ian Campbell Ross et al., Four Courts Press, 2010, pp. 9-31.
12-13, 35
Charles Gildon
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Standard Name: Gildon, Charles
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Anne Finch | AF
's pindaric ode The Spleen (together with some other poems by her) was published anonymously in Charles Gildon
's New Miscellany of Original Poems, on Several Occasions. This was a revised and expanded... |
| Anthologization | Anne Finch | In addition to its inclusion in Gildon
's collection and in her own 1713 volume of verse, The Spleen appeared in print several more times throughout AF
's lifetime: in October 1701, in A Collection... |
| death | Sarah Butler | SB
the novelist or historian was unequivocally said by Charles Gildon
to have died some time before her book appeared in print in June 1716. |
| Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | This was CT
's greatest success. The young George Farquhar
much admired it; it was even praised by Charles Gildon
. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988. 406-7 |
| Literary responses | Catharine Trotter | Anne Kelley
traces in detail successive judgements passed on Trotter (later Cockburn) by her contemporaries and by the later eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002. 15-45 |
| Literary responses | Mary Pix | Charles Gildon
rebuked this play for obscenity. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 1: 481 |
| Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | DM
was again the most prominent target of A Comparison Between the Two Stages, formerly thought to be by Charles Gildon
, 1702. |
| Literary responses | Sarah Butler | Irish Tales, say its modern editors, is arguably unique . . . in all English-language fiction in so directly linking modern English-language print culture and the older Irish-language bardic manuscript culture. Butler, Sarah. “Introduction”. Irish Tales, edited by Ian Campbell Ross et al., Four Courts Press, 2010, pp. 9-31. 17-18 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Delarivier Manley | She apparently produced a large part of her manuscript in a week, and the rest in a couple of months, having entered into negotiations with Curll
in response to his threat that he was already... |
| Reception | Aphra Behn | The maverick Victorian bibliographer Richard Herne Shepherd
did some work on AB
. In 1871 publisher John Pearson
issued in six volumes The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn, reprinted... |
| Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | DM
writes of herself as an expert in love, despite what she describes as her unalluring appearance. She presents herself, however, through men's eyes and as a topic of male gossip (in contrast with the... |
| Textual Production | Jane Wiseman | Her preface called the play the first Fruits of her muse. She strongly asserted her own authorship of it in its original state, particularly denying the allegation that she had had help from a well-known... |
| Textual Production | Aphra Behn | Charles Gildon
had a manuscript of this play. The success of Southerne
's adaptation of Oroonoko probably inspired him to get The Younger Brother staged; he may well have revised it first. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997. 336-7 |
| Textual Production | Aphra Behn | The volume is also known as All the Histories and Novels. The prefatory biography, by one of the fair sex, is almost certainly by Charles Gildon
and has no historical value. A second... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Butler | Since some scholars believe that SB
was not a woman but a pseudonym, other names have been put forward for authorship. They include Charles Gildon
(who supplied the dedicatory epistle), or the Jacobite translator and... |
Timeline
1691: Gerard Langbaine published An Account of...
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1691
Gerard Langbaine
published An Account of the English Dramatick Poets.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
14 April 1702: A Comparison Between theTwo Stages, probably...
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14 April 1702
A Comparison Between theTwo Stages, probably by Charles Gildon
, was anonymously published.
Gildon, Charles. A Comparison Between the Two Stages. Editor Wells, Staring B., Princeton University Press; Oxford University Press, 1942.
xii and n5
Staring B. Wells doubted this attribution, though it continues to be generally made.
Gildon, Charles. A Comparison Between the Two Stages. Editor Wells, Staring B., Princeton University Press; Oxford University Press, 1942.
xii n5
Texts
Gildon, Charles. A Comparison Between the Two Stages. Editor Wells, Staring B., Princeton University Press; Oxford University Press, 1942.
Gildon, Charles, editor. A New Miscellany of Original Poems, on Several Occasions. Peter Buck and George Strahan, 1701.