George Farquhar

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Excerpt from George Farquhar: Edited, With an Introduction and Notes Wilks lent him ten guineas. The statement that they came to London together is incorrect. His first play, Love and a Bottle, was not produced until December 1698 and we do not know what he did, or how he supported himself, in the interval. Dr Schmid thinks that, having brought the scheme of his comedy ready-made friom Dublin, he completed it soon after his arrival in London, but found no immediate opening for it, firstly because Van brugh's Relapse (produced early in December 1696) I blocked the way secondly, because the appearance of Jeremy Collier's Skort View, in March 1697-98, rendered the pro duction of so licentious a play inadvisable. Neither the alleged fact nor the method of accounting for it is con vincing. The probability is that Love and a Bottle was not completed very long before it appeared, since we can scarcely imagine that a young provincial, freshly arrived from Dublin, would be able instantly to produce a play which shows a familiar, if not an intimate, knowledge of London life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.