The historical register for the year 1736. As it is acted at the New Theatre in the Hay-Market. To which is added a very merry tragedy, called ... Both written by the author of Pasquin. ...

by Henry Fielding

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British Library

T089877

Author of Pasquin = Henry Fielding. The imprint is false; printed in Edinburgh by W. Cheyne.

London [i.e. Edinburgh] : and sold by J. Roberts, [1737]. [14],41,[1]p. ; 8°

Genres: 18th Century, Plays

60 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 1967

About the author

Henry Fielding was an English dramatist, journalist and novelist. The son of an army lieutenant and a judge's daughter, he was educated at Eton School and the University of Leiden before returning to England where he wrote a series of farces, operas and light comedies.

Fielding formed his own company and was running the Little Theatre, Haymarket, when one of his satirical plays began to upset the government. The passing of the Theatrical Licensing Act in 1737 effectively ended Fielding's career as a playwright.

In 1739 Fielding turned to journalism and became editor of The Champion. He also began writing novels, including: The Adventures of Joseph Andrews (1742) and Jonathan Wild (1743).

Fielding was made a justice of the peace for Westminster and Middlesex in 1748. He campaigned against legal corruption and helped his half-brother, Sir John Fielding, establish the Bow Street Runners.

In 1749 Fielding's novel, The History of Tom Jones was published to public acclaim. Critics agree that it is one of the greatest comic novels in the English language. Fielding followed this success with another well received novel, Amelia (1751).

Fielding continued as a journalist and his satirical journal, Covent Garden, continued to upset those in power. Throughout his life, Fielding suffered from poor health and by 1752 he could not move without the help of crutches. In an attempt to overcome his health problems, Henry Fielding went to live in Portugal but this was not successful and he died in Lisbon in 1754.

Reviews

[dilara · Rating 2 out of 5]

shut up

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

The two Henry Fielding plays included in this collection are clever, enjoyable, and - far more unexpectedly - strikingly modern. While in both of the plays Fielding comments and parodies very specific figures and events of his time, most of which will be inaccessible to a modern audience not closely versed in the minutiae of early eighteenth century society without extensive footnotes (which this edition, for the most part, provides quite adequately), the 'play within a play' structure of each, lampooning the theater world in which Fielding operated, brings to mind the far more modern outgrowths of the "Theater of the Absurd", or the work of such playwrights as Pirandello or Ayckbourn. Fascinating for that aspect.