Evelina, the Rustic Girls of Congreve and Abington, and Surrogation in the 1770s
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- James E. Evans, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: In the first volume of Evelina (1778), Frances Burney sends her protagonist to
London theaters, among the numerous public venues that provide settings for
this “Young Lady’s Entrance into the World.” Evelina attends several performances
at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, supposedly at a time when it was
managed by David Garrick, who was not only the leading actor of his era, but
also Dr. Charles Burney’s friend. On her first evening in London, Evelina sees
Garrick perform in Benjamin Hoadly’s The Suspicious Husband (1747); a week
later, in Shakespeare’s King Lear. During the most extended of the Drury Lane
episodes she sits with friends in a box at a revival of William Congreve’s late
seventeenth-century comedy Love for Love (1696).
Evelina, the Rustic Girls of Congreve and Abington, and Surrogation in the 1770s
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Language: English
- Date: 2011
- Keywords
- literature, literary analysis, eveline, frances burney, theater, London, surrogation