The Lost Lover (play)
The Lost Lover; or The Jealous Husband: A Comedy, Delarivier Manley's first published play, was performed in March 1696 at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The performance ran only three nights.[1]
Characters
As listed in the original script: Men
- Sir Rustic Good-Heart, an ill-bred country gentleman
- Wilmore, Rustic's son
- Wildman, Rustic's friend
- Sir Amorous Courtall
- Smyrna, a Turkey Merchant
- Pulse, a Physician
- Knowlittle, a Fortune-teller
- Timothy, his Man
- Ready, servant to Wildman
Women
- Lady Young-Love, an Old, vain, conceited Lady
- Marina, her daughter
- Belira, secret mistress to Wilmore
- Orinda, an affected poetess
- Olivia, Smyrna's Wife
- Isabella, woman to Lady Young-Love
- Phoebe, Olivia's maid
- Page
- Servants
External Works
- Full text of The Lost Lover available at Emory Women Writers Resource Project
- The London Stage Part I
References
- ^ Carnell, Rachel (2008). A Political Biography of Delarivier Manley. London: Pickering & Chatto. pp. 83–112. ISBN 9781851965748.
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