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London Assurance (Drama Classics) Book

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little PriceWhen the amorous Sir Harcourt Courtly prepares to wed an heiress several decades his junior, he hasn't reckoned on the superior charms of her cousin, the foxhunting Lady Gay Spanker...Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created – in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker – two of the great comic roles of the English stage.A classic comedy of manners that borrows from Sheridan and anticipates Oscar Wilde, the play is a small comedic masterpiece and is regularly revived.This edition of London Assurance, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is edited and introduced by Trevor R. Griffiths.Read More

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  • Waterstones

    An English comedy of manners that borrows from Sheridan and anticipates Oscar Wilde as the amorous and ancient Sir Harcourt Courtly prepares to wed an heiress half his age whom he has never met.

  • 1848420862
  • 9781848420861
  • Dion Boucicault
  • 18 March 2010
  • Nick Hern Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 128
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