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The Fergusonia File: Joanna Baillie's The Tryal (1798)
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Friday, November 24, 2006. Joanna Baillie's The Tryal (1798). Appearing in the same red-letter year as Coleridge and Wordsworth's. Joanna Baillie's decidedly less influential collection of plays,. Plays on the Passions. Was nonetheless popular in its day. Is one of three plays in the volume, and it is the only comedy. Miss Eston, Mr. Royston and Sir Loftus are good examples of this. Even if the stage directions in one scene were somehow lost, we would still know who was talking. As for your old wig indee...
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The Fergusonia File: Editing Trotter's Biographical Entry
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Sunday, October 22, 2006. Editing Trotter's Biographical Entry. The extant Wikipedia article for Catharine Trotter Cockburn. In terms of sensitive/opinionated material that might contravene the NPOV. Love at a Loss. My work on the entry, then, was hardly impeded by the NPOV policy. I wouldn’t have written any differently otherwise. Posted by Bard of Cornwall @ 7:02 AM. A Blog to be Let. Literature, musings, and tabby cats. Never mind the bollocks. Riddles: Not Simple Entertainment.
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The Fergusonia File: A Wife to Be Lett
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Thursday, November 02, 2006. A Wife to Be Lett. Eliza Haywood’s 1724 comedy,. A Wife to be Lett. The fact that Amadea is in drag makes the situation more complicated. Would Susanna have heeded the warnings if the censurer appeared in her true gender? Does the fact that no male is actually present suggest that there is room for exclusive female community even within patriarchy? The tyranny of husbands is clearly devalued in the play, but where are we left at the end? Posted by Bard of Cornwall @ 6:55 AM.
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The Fergusonia File: November 2006
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006. Frances Burney, The Witlings (1778-80). 1778-1780) opens in a milliner's shop (see photo), a fact which is notable in itself. The other plays we've looked at generally open in someone's dressing or drawing room, which is a cue to the upper or middle class milieu of the ensuing drama. I thought that opening. The play, like others we've seen, centres on a young woman who is independently wealthy (see Cavendish's. The Convent of Pleasure. That said, the characterization is good...
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The Fergusonia File: October 2006
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Sunday, October 29, 2006. Susanna Centlivre's The Busybody, 1709. I can see why Centlivre's. Posted by Bard of Cornwall @ 11:44 AM. Sunday, October 22, 2006. Editing Trotter's Biographical Entry. The extant Wikipedia article for Catharine Trotter Cockburn. In terms of sensitive/opinionated material that might contravene the NPOV. Love at a Loss. My work on the entry, then, was hardly impeded by the NPOV policy. I wouldn’t have written any differently otherwise. Posted by Bard of Cornwall @ 7:02 AM. Is un...
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The Fergusonia File: Susanna Centlivre's The Busybody, 1709
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Sunday, October 29, 2006. Susanna Centlivre's The Busybody, 1709. I can see why Centlivre's. Posted by Bard of Cornwall @ 11:44 AM. I'm intrigued by your discussion of the violence in the play, Jesse, mostly because I'm surprised that I didn't really notice it. Yes, there are duels and threats, but none of that registered as violent when I read the play. That's really interesting to me, and I'll have to go back over things before tomorrow so I can sort out my thoughts on it. What I find so interesting ab...
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The Fergusonia File: Mary Pix, The Innocent Mistress (1697)
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Sunday, October 15, 2006. Mary Pix, The Innocent Mistress (1697). Mary Pix's 1697 play,. Is unremarkable in terms of plot construction and characterization. As with many contemporary comedies, it employs stock devices: disguise, misplaced billet-doux, the conversion of rakes, etc. Posted by Bard of Cornwall @ 10:14 AM. Keep in mind that the comedy could get pretty broad in this period. Which does not negate your reading - which I like. A Blog to be Let. Literature, musings, and tabby cats.
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The Fergusonia File: 'Bout Time for Elizabeth Griffith's The Times, 1779
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Sunday, November 12, 2006. Bout Time for Elizabeth Griffith's The Times, 1779. 1779) doesn’t employ many of the stock-comedy conventions that we’ve come to expect. There are no cross-dressing scenes, no misplaced letters (unless you count Forward’s reading of the business document in 1.1), and the plot complications don’t largely result from the bumbling of a clown/fool figure. In our class discussion (last time? All this is to say, I was paradoxically bored by the absence of stock devices that should bo...
