Henry Fielding
English novelist, essayist and dramtist Born Sharpen Park, Somerset
April 22, 1707: Died Lisbon October 8, 1754
Stage Works
- Love in Several Masques. Comedy, 5 acts. Published 1728. Produced
Drury Lane Theatre, Feb 16, 1728
- The Temple Beau. Comedy, 5 acts. Published 1730. Produced
Goodman's Fields Theatre, Jan. 26, 1730.
- The Author's Farce; And the Pleasures of the Town. Farce,
3 acts. Published 1730. Produced Haymarket Theatre, Mar. 30, 1730.
- Tom Thumb: A Tragedy. Burlesque tragedy, 3 acts; verse. Published
1730 (1731, as The Tragedy of Tragedies; or The Life and Death of
Tom Thumb the Great.) Produced Haymarket Theatre, April, 1730.
- Rape upon Rape, or Justice Caught in His Own Trap. Comedy,
5 acts. Published 1730. Produced Haymarket Theatre, June 23, 1730.
- The Letter-Writers, or A New Way to Keep a Wife at Home. Farce,
3 acts. Published 1731. Produced Haymarket Theatre, Mar. 24, 1731.
- The Welsh Opera: or The Grey Mare the Better Horse; The Grub-Street
Opera. Comic opera, 3 acts. Published 1731. Produced Haymarket
Theatre, Apr. 22, 1731.
- The Lottery. Farce, 1 act. Published 1732. Produced Drury
Lane Theatre, Jan. 1, 1732.
- The Modern Husband. Comedy, 5 acts. Published 1732. Produced
Drury Lane Theatre, Feb. 14, 1732.
- The Covent Garden Tragedy. Burlesque tragedy, 2 acts; verse.
Published 1732. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, June 1, 1732.
- The Old Debauchees (The Debauchees, or The Jesuit Caught).
Play, 3 acts. Published 1732. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, June 1,
1732.
- The Mock Doctor, or The Dumb Lady Cur'd. Farce, (Adaptation).
1 long act. Published 1732. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, June 23,
1732. Based on Molière's Le médecin malgré lui (1666).
- The Miser.(Adaptation). Comedy, 5 acts. Published 1733.
Produced Drury Lane Theatre, Feb. 17, 1733. Based on Molière's L'Avare (1668).
- The Intriguing Chambermaid. (Adaptation). Comedy, 2 acts.
Published 1734. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, Jan. 15, 1734. Based
on Jean-François Regnard's Le retour imprévu (1700).
- Don Quixote in England. Comedy, 3 acts. Published 1734. Produced
Haymarket Theatre, ca. April, 1734.
- An Old Man Taught Wisdom, or The Virgin Umask'd. Farce, 1
act. Published 1735. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, Jan. 6, 1735.
- The Universal Gallant, or The Different Husbands. Comedy,
5 acts. Published 1735. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, Feb. 10, 1735.
- Pasquin. Dramatic satire, 5 acts; verse and prose. Published
1736. Produced Haymarket Theatre, Mar. 5, 1736.
- Tumble-Down Dick, or Phaeton in the Suds. Dramatic entertainment,
1 act. Published 1736. Produced Haymarket Theatre, Apr. 29, 1736.
- Eurydice, or The Devil Henpeck'd. Farce, 1 act. Published
1743. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, Feb. 19, 1737.
- The Historical Register for the Year 1736. Comedy, 3 acts.
Published 1737. Produced Haymarket Theatre, ca. March, 1737.
- Eurydice Hiss'd, or A Word to the Wise. Farce, 1 act; verse
and prose. Published 1737. Produced Haymarket.Theatre, Apr. 13, 1737.
- Miss Lucy in Town. Farce, 1 act. Published 1742. Produced
Drury Lane Theatre, May 6, 1742.
- The Wedding Day. Comedy, 5 acts. Published 1743. Produced
Drury Lane Theatre, Feb. 17, 1743.
- The Fathers, or The Good Natur'd Man. Comedy, 5 acts. Published
1778. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, Nov. 30, 1778.
CRITICISM
- A. Dobson, Henry Fielding: A Memoir, New York, 1900;
- id., Fielding, New York, 1883 and 1894, London, 1907;
- T. Keightley, The Life and Writings of Henry Fielding, Cleveland,
1907;
- E. Green, Henry Fielding: His Works, London, 1909;
- G. M. Godden, Henry Fielding: A Memoir, London, 1910;
- W. L. Cross, The History of Henry Fielding, New Haven, Conn.,
1918;
- H. K. Banerji, Henry Fielding, Playwright, Journalist, and Master
of the Art of Fiction: His Life and Works, Oxford, 1929;
- E. Jenkins, Henry Fielding, London, 1947;
- F. H. Dudden, Henry Fielding: His Life, Works, and Times,
2 vols., Oxford, 1952, Hamden, Conn., 1966;
- C. R. Rawson, ed., Henry Fielding: A Critical Anthology, Harmondsworth,
1973;
- J. Ducrocq Le Théâtre de Fielding, Brussels,
1975.
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