Squire Trelooby

Squire Trelooby
Written byWilliam Congreve
John Vanbrugh
William Walsh
Date premiered30 March 1704[1]
Place premieredLincoln's Inn Fields Theatre
Original languageEnglish
GenreComedy

Squire Trelooby is a 1704 farce by the writers William Congreve, John Vanbrugh and William Walsh. All were members of the Kit-Cat Club, and another member, Samuel Garth, wrote a prologue. The farce was inspired by the French play Monsieur de Pourceaugnac by Molière.

In 1734 James Ralph wrote The Cornish Squire, a reworking of the play which was staged at the Drury Lane Theatre.[2] It was considered a great success, and was followed by another version The Brave Irishman by Thomas Sheridan at Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre in 1744.[3]

References

  1. ^ Burling p. 36
  2. ^ Burling p. 159
  3. ^ Sheldon pp. 20–21

Bibliography

  • Burling, William J. A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700–1737. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1992.
  • Field, Ophelia. The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation. HarperCollins 2009.
  • Sheldon, Esther K. Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley. Princeton University Press, 2015.


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