Fielding has been much studied as a novelist and is generally considered to have had an undistinguished career as a playwright. By 1737, however, he had become the most dominant professional playwright since Dryden. He was the manager of his own troupe at the Little Haymarket in 1736 and was becoming known as a topical and political satirist when his theatrical career ended abruptly as a result of Walpole's Licensing Act. This work examines his career as playwright and manager when he introduced some innovative and successful new forms of drama.
- ISBN10 0198128649
- ISBN13 9780198128649
- Publish Date 1 April 1988
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 30 April 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Clarendon Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English