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Title: Thomas Durfey’s «Love for Money, or The Boarding School» (1691)

Thomas Durfey’s «Love for Money, or The Boarding School» (1691)

A Critical Edition

by Manuel J. Gómez-Lara (Editor) María José Mora (Editor)
©2023 Others 240 Pages
English Studies
Series: Restoration Drama, Volume 3

Summary

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

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the editors
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • A note on bibliographical references
  • Abbreviations
  • 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
  • Love for Money or The Boarding School
  • Appendix
  • References

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Acknowledgements

We should like to thank a number of colleagues and friends who have provided their help at different stages in the process of preparation of this edition: Manuel Bruña, Rocío Corral García, Victoria Echegaray Mitar, Julia Fernández Cuesta, Marta Jiménez Beato, Paula de Pando, Rafael Portillo, Juan A. Prieto-Pablos, Nora Rodríguez Loro, and Mercedes Salvador.

The publication of this critical edition has been made possible by the funding provided by the Junta de Andalucía (Consejería de Transformación Económica, Industria, Conocimiento y Universidades) and the ERDF Operational Programme 2014–2020, project ref. US-1380970. Their support is hereby gratefully acknowledged.

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A note on bibliographical references

Dates given for plays are those of première, followed by publication (e.g. 1678; 1679). By default, quotations from plays are followed by act, scene, and line number (e.g. 1.1.136–37). When the editions we are using do not number lines, page number is given instead (5.2, p. 63).

Citations from critical texts are followed by page number only, or by year of publication and page number when more than one work by the same author(s) has been cited (e.g. Milhous and Hume 1987: 103). When the text cited appears in a multivolume work, volume number precedes and is separated from page number by colon (e.g. Baker et al. 1: 212). Full details for all the works cited appear in the list of References.

Details

Pages
240
Publication Year
2023
ISBN (PDF)
9783034346405
ISBN (ePUB)
9783034346412
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034346245
DOI
10.3726/b20289
Language
English
Publication date
2023 (March)
Keywords
English drama Restoration comedy Stage history Theatre play Dramatic career
Published
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2023. 240 pp.
Product Safety
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Biographical notes

Manuel J. Gómez-Lara (Editor) María José Mora (Editor)

María José Mora and Manuel J. Gómez-Lara are associate professors of English at the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. They are members of the Restoration Comedy Project, which aims at reassessing the comic production of this period. They are working on an electronic database, as well as editing long-neglected pieces of this dramatic corpus.

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