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Excerpt from Henry Fieldings Dramatische Werke: Litterarische Studie
�ber sein Leben vergl. Lawrence, The Life of Henry Fiel ding Lond. 1855 p. 851, Am. 2.the Pleasures of the Town. 4) The Lottery, a Fame. Band 2 1) The coffee-house Politician; or, the Justice caught in his own Trap a Comedy. 2) The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great. 3) The letter-writers; or, A new Way to keep a Wife at Home, a Fame 4) The grub-street Opera. 5) The Modern Husband, a Comedy. Band 3: 1) The Mock Doctor; or, the Dumb Lady Cured, a Comedy. 2) The covent-garden Tragedy. 3) The Debauch ees; or, the J esuit caught, a Comedy. 4) The Miser, 3 Comedy. 5) The Intriguing Chambermaid, a Comedy. 6) Don Quixote in England, a Comedy. 7) The Old Man Taught Wisdom; or, the Virgin Unmask'd, a Fame. Band 4: 1) The Universal Gallant; or The Different Husbands a Comedy. 2) Pasquin, a Dramatic Satyr on the Tim&s. 3) The Histo rical Register for the Year 1736. 4) Eurydice, a Fame. 5) Eurydice Hiss'd; or, A Word to the Wise. 6) Tumble Down Dick; or, Phaeton in the Suds. A Dramatic Enter tainment of Walking in Serious and Foolish Characters. Interlarded with Burlesque, Grotesque, Comic Interludes, called Harlequin a pick-pocket. 7) Miss Lucy in Town. A Sequel to the Virgin Unmask'd, a Fame. 8) The wedding-day, 8. Comedy. 9) The Fathers; or, The good-natured Man, a Comedy. Das sind also im ganzen 25 St�cke?) Was das �msere der Ausgabe anbetrifit, so ist sie wenig sorgr�1tig ge arbeitet. Sie wimmelt von Druckfehlern ganz abgesehen da von dass die Orthographie wie auch kaum anders zu erwarten eine sehr schwankende ist. Die Reihenfolge der einzelnen Stucke ist in den mir bekannten Ausgaben dieselbe. Eine �bersicht �ber die zahlreichen Ausgaben der Werke Fieldings findet sich im Tr�sor des Livres Rares et Pr�cieux etc. Par J. G. Th. Graesse Bd. II, Seite 577e. Dresden etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.