Author: Cumberland, Richard [1732 - 1811]
Title: The WHEEL Of FORTUNE: A Comedy. Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane
Description: London: Printed fro C. Dilly, In the Poultry, 1795. The Third Edition. Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 79, [1] pp. 8vo. A VG+ copy. Cumberland was a civil servant in the Board of Trade and Plantations as well as a prolific playwright thought to have more than fifty plays to his credit. Notoriously self-important and thin-skinned, Cumberland was, in 1779, immortalized by Sheridan as the character Sir Fretful Plagiary in The Critic.

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