Three Hours after Marriage

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John Gay. Three Hours after Marriage

INTRODUCTION

NOTES

ADVERTISEMENT

PROLOGUE

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

ACT V

EPILOGUE

Отрывок из книги

Advertisement, printed exactly as it is acted.

I judge that when W. Whitestone undertook his Dublin Supplement of 1757 he took the Advertisement from the London book that had just been published (see the title-page of the volume) but that when he re-issued his book in 1758 he deleted the lines quoted above, perceiving that they were not to the point so far as his text of the play was concerned.

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Macedonian queen. Olympias: Underplot in his verses alludes,

mock-heroically, to the fabled begetting of Alexander the Great.

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