Author: Richard Cumberland
Title: Selected Plays Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
Description: London, C Dilly and Lackington, Allen and Co, 1783-1804. Paperback. Five plays by English dramatist and civil servant Richard Cumberland. The volumes include: The Mysterious Husband, A Tragedy in Five Acts (1783) First Edition The Wheel of Fortune, A Comedy (1795) Second Edition First Love, A Comedy (1796) Third Edition False Impressions, A Comedy (1797) First Edition The Sailor's Daughter, A Comedy in Five Acts (1804) Third Edition Richard Cumberland wrote fifty-four plays in total, half of these are comedies. Cumberland wrote in several sub-genres of comedy, First Love is a sentimental comedy whereas false impressions a melodramatic comedy. Four of the plays from this set are comedies with The Mysterious Husband being a domestic drama with a tragic ending. Cumberland found inspiration for The Mysterious Husband from the 1768 gothic novel, The Mysterious Mother by Horace Walpole. Disbound. Externally, age-toned with some spotting. Internally, all volumes are firmly bound. Pages are slightly age-toned at edges with odd spot throughout. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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