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The Complete Plays of Frances Burney: Volume 1: Comedies. Volume 2: Tragedies

The Complete Plays of Frances Burney: Volume 1: Comedies. Volume 2: Tragedies

Burney, Frances

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ISBN10: 0773513337
ISBN13: 9780773513334
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: May 1 1995
Pages: 2
Language: English

This two-volume set of the comedies and tragedies of Frances Burney (1752-1840) reveals her remarkable, yet little-known, talent as a dramatist. Compiled from the original manuscripts, it includes a substantial general introduction, headnotes to each play, explanatory notes, and variant readings.

In the plays, as in her novels, Burney satirizes the social conventions and pretensions of her day. The Witlings (1779), her first play, is a biting satire on the Bluestockings; it was never performed, however, for fear of a possible scandal. The violent, the grotesque, and the macabre also figure strongly in her writings.

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