Acknowledgements
Short Titles
Introduction
Frances Burney: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Witlings (1778-80)
The Woman-Hater (1800-02)
Appendix A: Burney’s Earliest Theatrical Writing: Epilogue to
Gerilda
Appendix B: Contemporary Letters and Diary Entries on The
Witlings
Appendix C: Burney and Molière
Appendix D: Contemporary Critical Essays on “Laughing” and
Sentimental Comedy
Appendix E: Literary Allusions in The Witlings and The
Woman-Hater
Appendix F: Burney’s Cast-List for The Woman-Hater
Appendix G: Similarities between The Witlings, The Woman-Hater, and
Burney’s Novels
Select Bibliography
Peter Sabor is a professor at McGill
University.
Geoffrey Sill is a professor at Rutgers
University.
It is no longer a secret for specialists only that Frances Burney
wrote some of the finest stage comedies of the eighteenth century.
Thanks to Peter Sabor and Geoffrey Sill, this splendid edition
makes two of her best plays available to readers, directors,
actors, and students alike." - Brian Corman, University of
Toronto
"Burney’s comedies, like her novels, have lively and funny moments,
but are likely to appeal to modern readers as much for their
uncomfortably vivid depictions of embarrassment, vulnerability and
marginalisation on the basis of gender, class, status and money.
Peter Sabor and Geoffrey Sill’s edition effectively contextualises
The Witlings and The Woman-Hater within eighteenth-century
theatrical culture and Burney’s own preoccupations, literary and
personal. This is an attractive, affordable, and excellently
annotated edition." - Jacqueline Pearson, The University of
Manchester
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