The Mayor Of Garratt A Comedy

Author : Samuel Foote
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ISBN 13 : 9781332155248
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book The Mayor of Garratt written by Samuel Foote and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Mayor of Garratt: A Comedy, in Two Acts Maning and Bray, in their History of Surry, 1826, say, that the Hamlet of Garrett is on the road from Wandsworth to Tooting. About two centuries ago, it appears to have been a single house, called the Garvett: this house was pulled down about fifty years ago. Garrett now contains about fifty houses. This used to be for many years, the scene of the celebrated Smock election." Foote's "Mayor of Garratt" may be deemed a faithful epitome of the prevailing ludicrous manners observed by the populace at Wandsworth, during the farcical election. This dramatist sketched so much from the life, that it is doubtful whether every marked character in his comedy had not its living original. It is well-known, that he drew Major Sturgeon from old Justice Lamb, a fishmonger at Acton, and a petty trading justice, whose daughter was married to Major Fleming, a gentleman also "of the peace," yet every way a more respectable man than his father-in-law. The first edition of Foote's "Mayor of Garratt," was printed in 1764, and is called "a comedy, in two acts; as is performed at the theatre royal in Drury Lane." On turning to the "dramatis personae," it will be found, he performed Major Sturgeon himself, and, likewise, Matthew Mug, in the same piece: Mrs. Clive playing Mrs. Sneak, to Weston's Jerry Sneak. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."