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    Three Hours after Marriage
    Three Hours after Marriage
    Three Hours after Marriage
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    Three Hours after Marriage

    By John Gay, Alexander Pope and John Arbuthnot

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    'Three Hours After Marriage' was a restoration comedy, written in by John Gay, Alexander Pope and John Arbuthnot. The play is best described as a satirical farce, and tells the story of Doctor Fossil, a pompous aging scientist, who has just married a much younger woman, Mrs Townley who is then immediately beset by two rival suitors who try to win her affections. The wife and suitors then go to comical lengths to hide their intentions from Dr Fossil.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateAug 10, 2022
    ISBN8596547160441
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    John Gay

    John Gay was an English playwright and poet who is most famous for his satirical masterpiece The Beggar’s Opera. Originally employed in the government, Gay turned to writing after losing his position following the death of Queen Anne in 1714. From then on, Gay relied on his income from writing, building up a long list of patrons over the course of his career, and making contact with some of the most famous writers of the time, including Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope (and with whom he was a member of the informal society of authors and thinkers known as the Scriblerus Club). After losing the majority of his fortune to a bad investment, Gay eventually found his greatest success in The Beggar’s Opera, a ballad opera that satirized society and government, and which ran for sixty-two nights upon its initial release. Gay died on December 4, 1732, at the age of forty-seven, and is buried in Westminster Abbey.

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