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Thomas Durfey's «Love for Money, or the Boarding School» (1691): A Critical Edition

Thomas Durfey's «Love for Money, or the Boarding School» (1691): A Critical Edition

Gómez-Lara, Manuel J.
Mora, María José

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Series: Restoration Drama, Book 3

Literary CriticismGeneral DramaPlays

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ISBN10: 3034346247
ISBN13: 9783034346245
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Published: Feb 28 2023
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.69
Language: English

Thomas Durfey's Love for Money (1691) uses a boarding school in Chelsea as the setting for an amusing series of love intrigues. Characters include a long-lost heiress and her impoverished suitor, a mercenary jilt, a libertine rake with a touch of the gull, a bragging French coxcomb, and two hoydenish romps courted by fortune-hunting schoolmasters with treats of custard and cheesecake. An imperious plotting lady, together with her henpecked husband and her rascal lover, provide timely anti-Jacobite satire. This critical edition offers a fully annotated text and an introduction that places the comedy in its literary and theatrical context. The editors review Durfey's career and his redefinition of the comedy of wit, veering towards the exemplary in line with the moral values of the new regime.

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