Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press.
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Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | |
Dedications | Mary Pix | She dedicated it to Lord Scarsdale
, a Man of Pleasure more than Business, Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press. 11: 519 Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press. 11: 517-9 |
Textual Features | Mary Pix | The prologue (not by MP
) says the play is a woman's contribution to reforming the stage. Her epilogue declares a commitment to naturalism: Let Humane Nature, Humane Creatures please. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Textual Production | Emma Marshall | She returned to literature (though she may not have thought of it as such) with In the Service of Rachel, Lady Russell
, A Story, 1893, and with Penshurst Castle in the time of... |
Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | This oriental tragedy, set in an exotically-imagined east, opposes a sizzlingly sexual female villain, Homais (played by Elizabeth Barry
), and a model, patient, suffering but excessive heroine, Princess Selima (played by Anne Bracegirdle |
Family and Intimate relationships | William Congreve | Congreve never married. He had two successive long-term liaisons, the first with the actress Anne Bracegirdle
, for whose interpretation he created all his heroines of comedy, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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