''The Modish Husband'' is a 1702
comedy play
Comedy is a genre of dramatic performance having a light or humorous tone that depicts amusing incidents and in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity. For ancient Greeks and Romans, a comedy was a stage-play with a happy endi ...
by the English writer
William Burnaby. It is in the
Restoration-style comedy of manners
In English literature, the term comedy of manners (also anti-sentimental comedy) describes a genre of realistic, satirical comedy that questions and comments upon the manners and social conventions of a greatly sophisticated, artificial society. ...
.
[Nicoll p.153]
Staged at the
Drury Lane Theatre
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England. The building faces Catherine Street (earlier named Bridges or Brydges Street) and backs onto Dru ...
in
London
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, the cast included
Robert Wilks
Robert Wilks (''c.'' 1665 – 27 September 1732) was a British actor and theatrical manager who was one of the leading managers of Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in its heyday of the 1710s. He was, with Colley Cibber and Thomas Doggett, one of the ...
as Lionel,
Colley Cibber
Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Poet Laureate. His colourful memoir ''An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber'' (1740) describes his life in ...
as Lord Promise,
Anne Oldfield
Anne Oldfield (168323 October 1730) was an England, English actress and one of the highest paid actresses of her time.
Early life and discovery
She was born in London in 1683. Her father was a soldier, James Oldfield. Her mother was either Ann ...
as Camilla,
Susanna Verbruggen
Susanna Verbruggen (née Percival) (–1703), aka Susanna Mountfort, was an English actress working in London.
Life
She was the daughter of Thomas Percival, a member of the Duke's Company for more than a decade. Her first recorded stage appear ...
as Lady Cringe, Jane Rogers as Lady Promise,
William Bullock as Harry and
William Pinkethman as Will Fanlove.
References
Bibliography
* Burling, William J. ''A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737''. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1992.
* Lowerre, Kathryn. ''Music and Musicians on the London Stage, 1695-1705''. Routledge, 2017.
1702 plays
West End plays
Plays by William Burnaby
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