The City Bride (1696)

Authors: Harris Joseph

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excerpt from the book.._The City Bride_, by Joseph Harris, is of special interest as the onlyadaptation from the canon of John Webster to have come upon the stage inthe Restoration. Nahum Tate's _Injur'd Love: or, The Cruel Husband_ isan adaptation of _The White Devil_, but it was never acted and was notprinted until 1707. _The City Bride_ is taken from _A Cure for aCuckold_, in which William Rowley and perhaps Thomas Heywoodcollaborated with Webster. F. L. Lucas, Webster's most recent and mosts

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cholarly editor, remarks that _A Cure for a Cuckold_ is one of thebetter specimens of Post-Elizabethan romantic comedy. In particular, thecharacter of the bride, Annabel (Arabella in Harris's adaptation), has auniversal appeal. _The City Bride_, a very close copy of its original,retains its virtues, and has some additional virtues of its own.

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