Hannah Cowley
A Bold Stroke for a Husband
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"Plays, where the scene is placed in a foreign country, particularly when that country is Spain, have a license to present certain impr…
Which is the Man?
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"Oh! Lord Sparkle! - Who can resist the gay, the elegant, the all-conquering Lord Sparkle? The most distinguished feather in the plume …
The Town Before You
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Impoverished Lords. Rich Lords and Ladies with no sense; other folk with Big Plans. Charlatans. Fools. Buffoons. Disguises. Clever Wives and…
The Runaway
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The first play by Cowley, this was premiered at Drury Lane by actor-manager David Garrick, to whom it is dedicated, in 1776. It was successf…
The Belle's Stratagem
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The Beaux Stratagem, already in the LibriVox catalog (https://librivox.org/beaux-stratagem-by-george-farquhar/), was written by George Farqu…
A School for Greybeards; or, The Mourning Bride
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Cowley: "I offer the following Comedy to the public, under a circumstance which has given my mind the most exquisite uneasiness. On the…
Who's the Dupe?
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A short farce. Scholar meets woman. "Plato! Aristotle! Zeno! I abjure ye. A girl bred in a nursery, in whose soul the sacred lamp of kn…