University of Nebraska Press. 1965. Softcover. Mid-size trade paperback. Fine. Classic drama - first performed at the Theater-Royal in the summer of 1731, London. Includes 10 page chronology of the period - from 1631 to 1759. 106 pages. Securely packed in a lidded box.

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Title: The London Merchant
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication Date: 1965
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0803253656
ISBN 13: 9780803253650
Binding: Softcover.

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First performed in 1731, The London Merchant became on of the most popular plays of the century. A chronicler of the age, Theophilus Cibber called it "almost a new species of tragedy."

Mrs. Millwood is beautiful, intelligent, and ambitious, but London gives her no means of support except to seduce men. Love for her leads eighteen-year-old Barnwell to deceit, theft, and murder.

"What are your laws," Mrs. Millwood asks, "but the fool’s wisdom and the coward’s valor, the instrument and screen of all your villainies by which you punish in others what you act out yourselves, had you been in their circumstances? The judge who condemns the poor man for being a thief had been a thief himself, had he been poor. Thus you go on deceiving and being deceived, harassing, plaguing, and destroying one another, but women are your universal prey."

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