The title-page promises embellishment with characters and anecdotes of well-known persons,
Hatton, Ann. Chronicles of an Illustrious House. Minerva, 1816, 5 vols.
title-page
and offers a Latin quotation about man being either a god or a wolf, and a French one on mastering the passions. Volumes...
Reception
Ada Cambridge
The Athenæum decried AC
's lack of originality, arguing that the work as a whole read like an echo of well-remembered poems, recalling . . . half a score of other scarcely less familiar productions...
Timeline
28 April 1619: The Maid's Tragedy, written jointly in 1610-11...
Writing climate item
28 April 1619
The Maid's Tragedy, written jointly in 1610-11 by John Fletcher
and Francis Beaumont
(who had since died), was entered in the Stationers' Register
; it was published this year.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
7 December 1666: This was probably the first day a public...
Building item
7 December 1666
This was probably the first day a public theatre opened in London after a seventeen-month closure owing to the plague.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 98
From 30 July 1778: George Colman's Bonduca (adapted from a play...
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From 30 July 1778
George Colman
's Bonduca (adapted from a play by Francis Beaumont
and John Fletcher
) kept up the tradition of stage representations of this female national hero, better known as Boadicea.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
124
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
