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FIELDING, Henry. The Modern Husband. A Comedy. London: J. Watts, 1732.
8° (204 x 135 mm). Five-page publisher’s advertisements at end. STABBED-AND-SEWN, UNCUT; brown cloth slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, A RARE ISSUE, with p.13 misnumbered 15, unrecorded in the standard bibliographies, but found also in the British Library copy. In superb original condition. The play was first performed 14 February 1732 at the Theatre-Royal. It was “another, if darker, experiment in the new species of comedy invented by HF and which, to use his own epithet for it in the prologue to Rape upon Rape, we may call ‘heroic’ comedy -- ‘heroic,’ that is, in its earnest manner and its daring exposure of modern vice and corruption” (Battestin, Fielding Companion, p. 183). It thus anticipates the plot of the 1994 film Indecent Proposal by more than two centuries. Cross III, p.294.
8° (204 x 135 mm). Five-page publisher’s advertisements at end. STABBED-AND-SEWN, UNCUT; brown cloth slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, A RARE ISSUE, with p.13 misnumbered 15, unrecorded in the standard bibliographies, but found also in the British Library copy. In superb original condition. The play was first performed 14 February 1732 at the Theatre-Royal. It was “another, if darker, experiment in the new species of comedy invented by HF and which, to use his own epithet for it in the prologue to Rape upon Rape, we may call ‘heroic’ comedy -- ‘heroic,’ that is, in its earnest manner and its daring exposure of modern vice and corruption” (Battestin, Fielding Companion, p. 183). It thus anticipates the plot of the 1994 film Indecent Proposal by more than two centuries. Cross III, p.294.