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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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Introduction – 1. The author – 2. The play – 2.1. The beginnings of Durfey’s dramatic career – 2.2. Love for Money and comedy after the Glorious Revolution – 3. Stage history – 4. The text

Thomas Durfey’s «Love for Money, or The Boarding

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    A Paperback / softback by Manuel J. Gómez-Lara, María José Mora, Manuel J. Gómez-Lara

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      Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
      Publication Date: 28/02/2023
      ISBN13: 9783034346245, 978-3034346245
      ISBN10: 3034346247

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Table of Contents

      Introduction – 1. The author – 2. The play – 2.1. The beginnings of Durfey’s dramatic career – 2.2. Love for Money and comedy after the Glorious Revolution – 3. Stage history – 4. The text

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