The Unpublished Plays of Richard Cumberland

• Author(s): Richard Cumberland,
• Publisher: AMS Press
• Pages: 823
• ISBN_10: 0404635091
  ISBN_13: 9780404635091
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Drama / General , Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ,

Description:... This volume contains the comedies, The Country Attorney and The School for Widows, variations on the theme of the ethics of inheritance. The two three-act comic operas that form a second set of plays demonstrate the power of the Lord Chamberlain's office in denying Richard II a license because of its treatment of the Peasant Revolt of 1381 and forcing the dramatic weakening of the play in the revision, The Armorer.