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'''The Beau Defeated. Or, The Lucky Younger Brother''' is a comedy from the [[Restoration era]] by [[Mary Pix]].
== Plot ==
The plot combines and contrasts stories about two wealthy widows. Mrs. Rich is not an aristocrat, but whe was married to a banker. Lady Landsworth is an aristocrat and was married to a dissolute man who severely limited her freedom to leave the house. The widows are very interested in finding new husbands. Mrs. Rich want a titled spouse; Lady Landsworth wants a gentleman who is educated and interested in the arts.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Harbrace anthology of drama |date=2006 |publisher=Thomson Nelson |year=2006 |edition=4 |location=Toronto |pages=72-73}}</ref>
The play is unusual for its time because it assigns an equal amount of spoken lines to men and women.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pearson |first=Jacqueline |title=The prostituted muse |date=1988 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |edition=1 |location=New York |pages=172}}</ref>
== Notable performances ==
Jo Davies directed a production at The Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2016<ref>{{Cite web |title=Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research Index |url=https://www.valdosta.edu/english/documents/rectr-journal-index.pdf}}</ref>; the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] staged a retitled version called ''The Fantastic Follies of Mrs. Rich'' in 2018''.''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gollapudi |first=Aparna |last2=Colorado State University - Fort Collins |date=2018-11 |title=Review of Royal Shakespeare Company Production of Mary Pix’s The Beau Defeated, retitled The Fantastic Follies of Mrs. Rich |url=https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol8/iss2/4/ |journal=ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 |volume=8 |issue=2 |doi=10.5038/2157-7129.8.2.1197 |issn=2157-7129}}</ref>
== Publication ==
The play was first published by W. Turner and R. Basset in London in 1700.
== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Restoration comedy]]
Okumaya devam et...
'''The Beau Defeated. Or, The Lucky Younger Brother''' is a comedy from the [[Restoration era]] by [[Mary Pix]].
== Plot ==
The plot combines and contrasts stories about two wealthy widows. Mrs. Rich is not an aristocrat, but whe was married to a banker. Lady Landsworth is an aristocrat and was married to a dissolute man who severely limited her freedom to leave the house. The widows are very interested in finding new husbands. Mrs. Rich want a titled spouse; Lady Landsworth wants a gentleman who is educated and interested in the arts.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Harbrace anthology of drama |date=2006 |publisher=Thomson Nelson |year=2006 |edition=4 |location=Toronto |pages=72-73}}</ref>
The play is unusual for its time because it assigns an equal amount of spoken lines to men and women.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pearson |first=Jacqueline |title=The prostituted muse |date=1988 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |edition=1 |location=New York |pages=172}}</ref>
== Notable performances ==
Jo Davies directed a production at The Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2016<ref>{{Cite web |title=Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research Index |url=https://www.valdosta.edu/english/documents/rectr-journal-index.pdf}}</ref>; the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] staged a retitled version called ''The Fantastic Follies of Mrs. Rich'' in 2018''.''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gollapudi |first=Aparna |last2=Colorado State University - Fort Collins |date=2018-11 |title=Review of Royal Shakespeare Company Production of Mary Pix’s The Beau Defeated, retitled The Fantastic Follies of Mrs. Rich |url=https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol8/iss2/4/ |journal=ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 |volume=8 |issue=2 |doi=10.5038/2157-7129.8.2.1197 |issn=2157-7129}}</ref>
== Publication ==
The play was first published by W. Turner and R. Basset in London in 1700.
== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Restoration comedy]]
Okumaya devam et...