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The Contrast is an 1832 novel by the British writer and politician Lord Normanby, originally published in three volumes. It was his third novel following Matilda (1825) and Yes and No (1828), all three of which were part of the developing silver fork genre focused on the fashionable aristocracy and upper classes of the late Regency ...
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Scene I. An Apartment at Charlotte's. Charlotte and Letitiadiscovered. Letitia.And so, Charlotte, you really think the pocket-hoopunbecoming. Charlotte. No, I don't say so: It may be very becoming tosaunter round the house of a rainy day; to visit my grand-mamma,or to go to Quakers' meeting: but to swim in a minuet,with the eyes of fifty well-dress...
SceneI. Enter Charlotte and Letitia. Charlotte [at entering]. Betty, take those things out of the carriage and carry themto my chamber; see that you don't tumble them. My dear, Iprotest, I think it was the homeliest of the whole. I declare Iwas almost tempted to return and change it. Letitia.Why would you take it? Charlotte. [Didn't Mrs. Catgut say...
Scene I. Dimple'sRoom. Dimple [discovered at a toilet, reading]. "Women have in general but one object, which is their beauty."Very true, my lord; positively very true. "Nature has hardlyformed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery uponher person." Extremely just, my lord; every day's delightfulexperience confirms this. "If her face is s...
Scene. I. Charlotte'sApartment. Charlotte leading in Maria. Charlotte.This is so kind, my sweet friend, to come to see meat this moment. I declare, if I were going to be married in a fewdays, as you are, I should scarce have found time to visit myfriends. Maria.Do you think, then, that there is an impropriety in it?—Howshould you dispose of your ti...
The Contrast, written in 1787 by Royall Tyler, is an American play in the tradition of the English Restoration comedies of the seventeenth century; it takes its cue from Sheridan's The School for Scandal, a British comedy of manners that had revived that tradition a decade before.
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- Tyler, Royall, 1757-1826
- 1st US Play Performed
- McKee, Thomas Jefferson, 1840-1899
- The Contrast
…on stage until Royall Tyler’s The Contrast (1787), the first American comedy. Tyler’s play introduced a favourite theme of early American drama: the triumph of native honesty and worth over foreign sham and affectation.
As the tittle suggest in the book we see contrast and actually more than one. The play highlightens and satirizes the differences between people: their culture, status and personalities. It shows the opposition of transactional nature of marriage and personal freedom of preference.
The Contrast by Royall Tyler. A Comedy. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THOMAS J. McKEE. INTRODUCTION. THE ‘Contrast’ was the first American play ever performed in public by a company of professional actors.
