1735-36 Love's Last Shift Lady's Last Stake The Comical Lovers Perolla and Izadora

Description

Early Edition, Leather Binding

Four plays by Colley Cibber bound in one volume.

'Love's Last Shift', a comedy, published in 1735. ESTC citation number N3236. Bound without the frontispiece and leaf A3. 

'Lady's Last Stake', a comedy, published in 1736, the third edition. ESTC citation number N11612. Pagination of pages 38 and 39 is reversed. Bound without the frontispiece. One leaf of adverts to the rear.

'The Comical Lovers', a comedy, published in 1736. ESTC citation number N28249. Bound without the frontispiece, and pages 63-82.

'Perolla and Izadora', a tragedy, published in 1736. ESTC citation number T26030. Pagination of pages 58 and 59 is reversed. Bound without the frontispiece. 

Colley Cibber was an actor-manager and playwright who wrote twenty-five plays for his own company at Drury Lane.

His best known play is 'Love's Last Shift', which started a public shift in taste away from Restoration intellectualism and sexual frankness towards conservative and sentimental comedy.