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Lillo, George. Ed(S): McBurney, William H. - London Merchant - 9780803253650 - V9780803253650
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London Merchant

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Description for London Merchant Paperback. A classic of eithteenth-century drama Editor(s): McBurney, William H. Num Pages: 106 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 162.

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 ... Read more

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."

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1965
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
106
Condition
New
Number of Pages
134
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803253650
SKU
V9780803253650
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

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