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Charles Gildon [1700], Measure for Measure, or beauty the Best Advocate. As it is acted at the theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. VVritten Originally by Mr. Shakespear: And now very much Alter'd; VVith Additions of several Entertainments of Musick (Printed for D. Brown... and R. Parker [etc.], London) [word count] [S31700]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
Note return to page 1 Gildon's play, first performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1700 and revived at the Queen's Theatre in 1706, draws occasionally on Davenant's earlier adaptation THE LAW AGAINST LOVERS, but is for the most part an abbreviated, cleaned-up version of MEASURE FOR MEASURE, chiefly notable for incorporating Purcell's DIDO AND AENEAS in instalments as an opera-within-a-play. It is praised in the seventh volume of poems and commentary appended to Rowe's edition of Shakespeare in 1710— albeit by Gildon himself.
Charles Gildon [1700], Measure for Measure, or beauty the Best Advocate. As it is acted at the theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. VVritten Originally by Mr. Shakespear: And now very much Alter'd; VVith Additions of several Entertainments of Musick (Printed for D. Brown... and R. Parker [etc.], London) [word count] [S31700]. |
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