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William Mountfort, Christopher Marlowe, K. Otto L. Francke

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Description:The LIFE and DEATH of Doctor Faustus Made into a FARCE(1697)Introduction by ANTHONY KAUFMAN To H. T. Swedenberg, Junior founder, protector, friend[Illustration: He that delights to Plant and Set, Makes After-Ages in his Debt.]Where could they find another formed so fit,To poise, with solid sense, a sprightly wit?Were these both wanting, as they both abound,Where could so firm integrity be found? CONTENTS THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETYINTRODUCTIONNOTES TO THE INTRODUCTIONBIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTETHE LIFE and DEATH OF Doctor Faustus, Made into a FARCE.ACT I.ACT II.ACT III.INTRODUCTIONAccording to “Some Account of the Life of Mr. W. Mountfort” prefixed to the collected plays of 1720, William Mountfort, successful playwright and actor, was born “the Son of Captain Mountfort, a Gentleman of a good Family in Staffordshire; and he spent the greatest Part of his Younger Years in that County, without being bred up to any Employment.” Since “his Gaiety of Temper and Airy Disposition ... could not be easily restrain’d to the solitary Amusements of a Rural Life,”[1] he set out to make his fortune in London, and was employed by the Duke’s Company at the Dorset Garden Theater. First notice of him appears in the part of the “boy” in The Counterfeits, attributed to John Leanerd, and produced in May, 1678.[2]Mountfort was to win notice as an actor in the part of Talboy in Brome’s The Jovial Crew, where as a rejected lover he was called upon for storms of comic tears. In his Apology, Cibber praises Mountfort in this part: “in his Youth, he had acted Low Humour, with great Success, even down to Tallboy in the Jovial Crew”[3] and Mountfort himself alluded to his early success in the prologue to his first play, The Injured Lovers, where he defies the critics: “True Talboy to the last I’ll Cry and Write.”Mountfort scored his first major success as an actor when he played the title role in Crowne’s Sir Courtly Nice. The play’s popularity owed much to Mountfort’s acting of a part which recalls Etherege’s Sir Fopling Flutter. The “Account” of 1720 says that Mountfort “gain’d a great and deserved Reputation, as a Player; particularly in Acting the part of Sir Courtly Nice,” and Cibber, who was later to create the great Sir Novelty Fashion, says of Mountfort’s Sir Courtly:There his whole Man, Voice, Mien, and Gesture, was no longer Monfort, but another Person. There, the insipid, soft Civility, the elegant, and formal Mien; the drawling delicacy of Voice, the stately Flatness of his Address, and the empty Eminence of his Attitudes were ... nicely observ’d.... If, some Years after the Death of Monfort, I my self had any Success, in either of these Characters, I must pay the Debt I owe to his Memory, in confessing the Advantages I receiv’d from the just Idea, and strong Impression he had given me, from his action them (Apology, p. 76).In 1686, Mountfort married one of the attractive young actresses then appearing in London, Susanna Percival, and the Mountforts appeared together in a number of plays until his untimely death.Mountfort brought his first play, The Injured Lovers: or, The Ambitious Father, a tragedy, to be acted at Drury Lane early in February, 1688. The play was not a great success. Gildon mentions that it “did not succeed as the Author wish’d,”[4] although the play was brilliantly cast, with Betterton, Mrs. Bracegirdle, and Mrs. Barry in chief parts.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus: Made Into a Farce by Mountford, with the Humours of Harlequin. To get started finding The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus: Made Into a Farce by Mountford, with the Humours of Harlequin, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The LIFE and DEATH of Doctor Faustus Made into a FARCE(1697)Introduction by ANTHONY KAUFMAN To H. T. Swedenberg, Junior founder, protector, friend[Illustration: He that delights to Plant and Set, Makes After-Ages in his Debt.]Where could they find another formed so fit,To poise, with solid sense, a sprightly wit?Were these both wanting, as they both abound,Where could so firm integrity be found? CONTENTS THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETYINTRODUCTIONNOTES TO THE INTRODUCTIONBIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTETHE LIFE and DEATH OF Doctor Faustus, Made into a FARCE.ACT I.ACT II.ACT III.INTRODUCTIONAccording to “Some Account of the Life of Mr. W. Mountfort” prefixed to the collected plays of 1720, William Mountfort, successful playwright and actor, was born “the Son of Captain Mountfort, a Gentleman of a good Family in Staffordshire; and he spent the greatest Part of his Younger Years in that County, without being bred up to any Employment.” Since “his Gaiety of Temper and Airy Disposition ... could not be easily restrain’d to the solitary Amusements of a Rural Life,”[1] he set out to make his fortune in London, and was employed by the Duke’s Company at the Dorset Garden Theater. First notice of him appears in the part of the “boy” in The Counterfeits, attributed to John Leanerd, and produced in May, 1678.[2]Mountfort was to win notice as an actor in the part of Talboy in Brome’s The Jovial Crew, where as a rejected lover he was called upon for storms of comic tears. In his Apology, Cibber praises Mountfort in this part: “in his Youth, he had acted Low Humour, with great Success, even down to Tallboy in the Jovial Crew”[3] and Mountfort himself alluded to his early success in the prologue to his first play, The Injured Lovers, where he defies the critics: “True Talboy to the last I’ll Cry and Write.”Mountfort scored his first major success as an actor when he played the title role in Crowne’s Sir Courtly Nice. The play’s popularity owed much to Mountfort’s acting of a part which recalls Etherege’s Sir Fopling Flutter. The “Account” of 1720 says that Mountfort “gain’d a great and deserved Reputation, as a Player; particularly in Acting the part of Sir Courtly Nice,” and Cibber, who was later to create the great Sir Novelty Fashion, says of Mountfort’s Sir Courtly:There his whole Man, Voice, Mien, and Gesture, was no longer Monfort, but another Person. There, the insipid, soft Civility, the elegant, and formal Mien; the drawling delicacy of Voice, the stately Flatness of his Address, and the empty Eminence of his Attitudes were ... nicely observ’d.... If, some Years after the Death of Monfort, I my self had any Success, in either of these Characters, I must pay the Debt I owe to his Memory, in confessing the Advantages I receiv’d from the just Idea, and strong Impression he had given me, from his action them (Apology, p. 76).In 1686, Mountfort married one of the attractive young actresses then appearing in London, Susanna Percival, and the Mountforts appeared together in a number of plays until his untimely death.Mountfort brought his first play, The Injured Lovers: or, The Ambitious Father, a tragedy, to be acted at Drury Lane early in February, 1688. The play was not a great success. Gildon mentions that it “did not succeed as the Author wish’d,”[4] although the play was brilliantly cast, with Betterton, Mrs. Bracegirdle, and Mrs. Barry in chief parts.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus: Made Into a Farce by Mountford, with the Humours of Harlequin. To get started finding The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus: Made Into a Farce by Mountford, with the Humours of Harlequin, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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