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Title: Essays on the Stage
Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the
Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays
(1699)

Author: Thomas D'Urfey and Bossuet

Commentator: Joseph Wood Krutch

Release Date: July 20, 2005 [EBook #16335]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Series Three:
_Essays on the Stage_

No. 4

Thomas D'Urfey, Preface to _The Campaigners_ (1698)

and

Anonymous, Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's
_Maxims and Reflections upon Plays_ (1699)

With an Introduction by
Joseph Wood Krutch

The Augustan Reprint Society
March, 1948
Price: $1.00

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GENERAL EDITORS

RICHARD C. BOYS, University of Michigan
EDWARD NILES HOOKER, University of California, Los Angeles
H.T. SWEDENBERG, JR., University of California, Los Angeles

ASSISTANT EDITOR

W. EARL BRITTON, University of Michigan

ADVISORY EDITORS

EMMETT L. AVERY, State College of Washington
BENJAMIN BOYCE, University of Nebraska
LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, University of Michigan
CLEANTH BROOKS, Yale University
JAMES L. CLIFFORD, Columbia University
ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, University of Chicago
SAMUEL H. MONK, University of Minnesota
ERNEST MOSSNER, University of Texas
JAMES SUTHERLAND, Queen Mary College, London

Lithoprinted from copy supplied by author
by
Edwards Brothers, Inc.
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
1948

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Introduction

The three parts of D'Urfey's "The Comical History of Don Quixote" were
performed between 1694 and (probably) the end of 1696. Some of the
songs included were conspicuously "smutty"--to use a word which D'Urfey
ridiculed--but the fact