Composers and their stage works 



Henry Fielding

English novelist, essayist and dramtist Born Sharpen Park, Somerset April 22, 1707: Died Lisbon October 8, 1754

Stage Works

  1. Love in Several Masques. Comedy, 5 acts. Published 1728. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, Feb 16, 1728
  2. The Temple Beau. Comedy, 5 acts. Published 1730. Produced Goodman's Fields Theatre, Jan. 26, 1730.
  3. The Author's Farce; And the Pleasures of the Town. Farce, 3 acts. Published 1730. Produced Haymarket Theatre, Mar. 30, 1730.
  4. 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.
  5. Rape upon Rape, or Justice Caught in His Own Trap. Comedy, 5 acts. Published 1730. Produced Haymarket Theatre, June 23, 1730.
  6. The Letter-Writers, or A New Way to Keep a Wife at Home. Farce, 3 acts. Published 1731. Produced Haymarket Theatre, Mar. 24, 1731.
  7. 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.
  8. The Lottery. Farce, 1 act. Published 1732. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, Jan. 1, 1732.
  9. The Modern Husband. Comedy, 5 acts. Published 1732. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, Feb. 14, 1732.
  10. The Covent Garden Tragedy. Burlesque tragedy, 2 acts; verse. Published 1732. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, June 1, 1732.
  11. The Old Debauchees (The Debauchees, or The Jesuit Caught). Play, 3 acts. Published 1732. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, June 1, 1732.
  12. 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).
  13. The Miser.(Adaptation). Comedy, 5 acts. Published 1733. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, Feb. 17, 1733. Based on Molière's L'Avare (1668).
  14. 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).
  15. Don Quixote in England. Comedy, 3 acts. Published 1734. Produced Haymarket Theatre, ca. April, 1734.
  16. An Old Man Taught Wisdom, or The Virgin Umask'd. Farce, 1 act. Published 1735. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, Jan. 6, 1735.
  17. The Universal Gallant, or The Different Husbands. Comedy, 5 acts. Published 1735. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, Feb. 10, 1735.
  18. Pasquin. Dramatic satire, 5 acts; verse and prose. Published 1736. Produced Haymarket Theatre, Mar. 5, 1736.
  19. Tumble-Down Dick, or Phaeton in the Suds. Dramatic entertainment, 1 act. Published 1736. Produced Haymarket Theatre, Apr. 29, 1736.
  20. Eurydice, or The Devil Henpeck'd. Farce, 1 act. Published 1743. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, Feb. 19, 1737.
  21. The Historical Register for the Year 1736. Comedy, 3 acts. Published 1737. Produced Haymarket Theatre, ca. March, 1737.
  22. Eurydice Hiss'd, or A Word to the Wise. Farce, 1 act; verse and prose. Published 1737. Produced Haymarket.Theatre, Apr. 13, 1737.
  23. Miss Lucy in Town. Farce, 1 act. Published 1742. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, May 6, 1742.
  24. The Wedding Day. Comedy, 5 acts. Published 1743. Produced Drury Lane Theatre, Feb. 17, 1743.
  25. 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.