Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Record 46 of 52
Previous Record Next Record
Microform
Author Tuke, Samuel, Sir, -1674.

Title The advertures of five houres [microform] : a tragi-comedy. As it is acted at His Royal Highness the Duke of York's theatre.

Imprint London : Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman, 1671.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Basement Library of English Literature Microfiche Cabinets  LEL 11938    ---  Available
Edition The third impression, revis'd and corrected by the author. Sir Samuel Tuke kt. and bart....
Description [8], 100 p.
Series Library of English literature ; LEL 11938
Note An adaptation of Los empeņos de seis horas, "now assigned to Antonio Coello and not, as formerly, to Calderon."--Cambridge history of English literature, v. 8, p. 130.
"According to Pepys, it was acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields for the first time on 8 Jan, 1633. 'The play,' he says, 'in one word is the best for the variety, and the most excellent continuance of the plot to the end, that ever I saw, or think ever shall, and all possible, not only to be done in the time, but in most other respects very admittable and without one word of ribaldry."--Dictionary of national biography.
Prologue by Mr. Betterton; epilogues by Mr. Smith and Mr. Harris.
Reproduction Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, Inc., 1976. 1 microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature, 11938)
Note s 1976 ilu n
Added Author Coello, Antonio, 1611-1652. Empeņos de seis horas.
Betterton, Thomas, 1635?-1710.

 
    
Available items only