Polly Honeycombe
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Polly Honeycombe is a 1760 comedy play by George Colman the Elder
. It satirised the young novel
-reading woman. It was Colman's first play and helped establish his reputation, which he built on with The Jealous Wife
the following year.
George Colman the Elder
George Colman was an English dramatist and essayist, usually called "the Elder", and sometimes "George the First", to distinguish him from his son, George Colman the Younger....
. It satirised the young novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
-reading woman. It was Colman's first play and helped establish his reputation, which he built on with The Jealous Wife
The Jealous Wife
The Jealous Wife is a 1761 British play by George Colman the Elder. A comedy - it was first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre on 12 February 1761 and ran for nineteen performances in its first season and seventy by the end of the century...
the following year.
External links
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(3rd ed. London: T. Becket, 1762)