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Three Hours after Marriage

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The play is a brisk satirical comedy of manners that stages domestic misunderstandings, romantic intrigues, and theatrical rivalries to lampoon social pretension and artistic affectation. It unfolds through a series of farcical scenes and contrived letters and misunderstandings that escalate public scandal and private embarrassment. Sharp, ironic dialogue and staged set-pieces target fashionable tastes, critics, and performers while mixing coarse humor with learned allusion. Structural playfulness and episodic plotting foreground performance and authorship as objects of ridicule. The tone alternates between buffoonery and pointed satire, ending without grand reconciliation but with exposed hypocrisies.


PUBLICATIONS OF THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY

First Year (1946-47)

Numbers 1-6 out of print.

Second Year (1947-1948)

7. John Gay's The Present State of Wit (1711); and a section on Wit from The English Theophrastus (1702).

8. Rapin's De Carmine Pastorali, translated by Creech (1684).

9. T. Hanmer's (?) Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet (1736).

10. Corbyn Morris' Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, etc. (1744).

11. Thomas Purney's Discourse on the Pastoral (1717).

12. Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch.

Third Year (1948-1949)

13. Sir John Falstaff (pseud.), The Theatre (1720).

14. Edward Moore's The Gamester (1753).

15. John Oldmixon's Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley (1712); and Arthur Mainwaring's The British Academy (1712).

16. Nevil Payne's Fatal Jealousy (1673).

17. Nicholas Rowe's Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespeare (1709).

18. "Of Genius," in The Occasional Paper, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719); and Aaron Hill's Preface to The Creation (1720).

Fourth Year (1949-1950)

19. Susanna Centlivre's The Busie Body (1709).

20. Lewis Theobold's Preface to The Works of Shakespeare (1734).

21. Out of print.

22. Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750).

23. John Dryden's His Majesties Declaration Defended (1681).

24. Out of print.

Fifth Year (1950-1951)

25. Thomas Baker's The Fine Lady's Airs (1709).

26. Charles Macklin's The Man of the World (1792).

27. Out of print.

28. John Evelyn's An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661).

29. Daniel Defoe's A Vindication of the Press (1718).

30. Essays on Taste from John Gilbert Cooper's Letters Concerning Taste, 3rd edition (1757), & John Armstrong's Miscellanies (1770).

Sixth Year (1951-1952)

31. Thomas Gray's An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751); and The Eton College Manuscript.

32. Prefaces to Fiction; Georges de Scudéry's Preface to Ibrahim (1674), etc.

33. Henry Gally's A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings (1725).

34. Thomas Tyers' A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1785).

35. James Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster. Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Mallock (1763).

36. Joseph Harris's The City Bride (1696).

Seventh Year (1952-1953)

37. Thomas Morrison's A Pindarick Ode on Painting (1767).

38. John Phillips' A Satyr Against Hypocrites (1655).

39. Thomas Warton's A History of English Poetry.

40. Edward Bysshe's The Art of English Poetry (1708).

41. Bernard Mandeville's A Letter to Dion (1732).

42. Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances.

Eighth Year (1953-1954)

43. John Baillie's An Essay on the Sublime (1747).

44. Mathias Casimire Sarbiewski's The Odes of Casimire, Translated by G. Hils (1646).

45. John Robert Scott's Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine Arts.

46. Selections from Seventeenth Century Songbooks.

47. Contemporaries of the Tatler and Spectator.

48. Samuel Richardson's Introduction to Pamela.

Ninth Year (1954-1955)

49. Two St. Cecilia's Day Sermons (1696-1697).

50. Hervey Aston's A Sermon Before the Sons of the Clergy, (1745).

51. Lewis Maidwell's An Essay upon the Necessity and Excellency of Education (1705).

52. Pappity Stampoy's A Collection of Scotch Proverbs (1663).

53. Urian Oakes' The Soveraign Efficacy of Divine Providence (1682).

54. Mary Davys' Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady (1725).

Tenth Year (1955-1956)

55. Samuel Say's An Essay on the Harmony, Variety, and Power of Numbers (1745).

56. Theologia Ruris, sive Schola & Scala Naturae (1686).

57. Out of print.

58. Eighteenth-Century Book Illustrations.

59. Samuel Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare. Vol. I, Comedies, Part I.

60. Samuel Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare. Vol. I, Comedies, Part II.

Eleventh Year (1956-1957)

61. Elizabeth Elstob's An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities (1715).

62. Two Funeral Sermons (1635).

63. Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787).

64. Prefaces to Three Eighteenth-Century Novels (1708, 1751, 1797).

65. Samuel Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare. Vol. II, Histories, Part I.

66. Samuel Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare. Vol. II, Histories, Part II.

Twelfth Year (1957-1958)

67. Henry Fielding's The Voyages of Mr. Job Vinegar (1740).

68. Elkanah Settle's The Notorious Impostor (1692) and Diego Redivivus (1692).

69. An Historical View of the ... Political Writers in Great Britain (1740).

70. G.W., Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703).

71. Samuel Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare. Vol. III, Tragedies, Part I.

72. Samuel Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare. Vol. III, Tragedies, Part II.

Thirteenth Year (1958-1959)

73. Samuel Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare. Vol. III, Tragedies, Part III.

74. Seventeenth-Century Tales of the Supernatural.

75. John Joyne, A Journal (1679).

76. André Dacier. Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry (1705).

77-78. David Hartley, Various Conjectures on the Perception, Motion, and Generation of Ideas (1746).

Fourteenth Year (1959-1960)

79. William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke's Poems (1660).

80. [P. Whalley's] An Essay on the Manner of Writing History (1746).

81. Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters The Graces (1774) The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette (1776).

82. Henry Fuseli's Remarks on the Writings and Conduct of J. J. Rousseau (1767).

83. Sawney and Colley (1742) and other Pope Pamphlets.

84. Richard Savage's An Author To Be Lett (1729).

Fifteenth Year (1960-1961)

85-86. Essays on the Theatre from Eighteenth-Century Periodicals. Selected, with an introduction, by John Loftis. [double issue]

87. Daniel Defoe, Of Captain Misson and his Crew (1728). Introduction by Maximillian E. Novak.

88. Samuel Butler, Poems. Selected, with an introduction, by Alexander C. Spence.

89. Henry Fielding, Ovid's Art of Love (1760). Introduction by Claude E. Jones.

90. Henry Needler, Works (1728). Selected, with an introduction, by Marcia Allentuck.


William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: University of California

The Augustan Reprint Society

General Editors

R. C. Boys
University of Michigan
Vinton A. Dearing
University of California, Los Angeles
Ralph Cohen
University of California, Los Angeles
Lawrence Clark Powell
Wm. Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Corresponding Secretary: Mrs. Edna C. Davis, Wm. Andrews Clark Memorial Library

The Society's purpose is to publish reprints (usually facsimile reproductions) of rare seventeenth and eighteenth century works. All income of the Society is devoted to defraying costs of publication and mailing.

Correspondence concerning subscriptions in the United States and Canada should be addressed to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2205 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles 18, California. Correspondence concerning editorial matters may be addressed to any of the general editors. The membership fee is $4.00 a year for subscribers in the United States and Canada and 15/- for subscribers in Great Britain and Europe. British and European subscribers should address B.H. Blackwell, Broad Street, Oxford, England.

 

Publications for 1961-1962

John Gay, Alexander Pope, and John Arbuthnot, Three Hours After Marriage (1717). Introduction by John Harrington Smith. [double issue]

John Norris, Cursory Reflections Upon a Book Call'd, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690). Introduction by Gilbert D. McEwen.

An. Collins, Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653). Introduction by Stanley Stewart.

An Essay on the New Species of Writing Founded by Mr. Fielding (1751). Introduction by Alan D. McKillop.

Hanoverian Ballads. Selected, with an Introduction, by John J. McAleer.

 

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