The Augustan Reprint Society
THE
HARLOT'S PROGRESS
THEOPHILUS CIBBER
(1733)
and
THE
RAKE'S PROGRESS
(MS., Ca. 1778-1780)
Introduction by
Mary F. Klinger
PUBLICATION NUMBER 181
WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
University of California, Los Angeles
1977
GENERAL EDITORS
William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial LibraryGeorge Robert Guffey, University of California, Los AngelesMaximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los AngelesDavid Stuart Rodes, University of California, Los Angeles
ADVISORY EDITORS
James L. Clifford, Columbia UniversityRalph Cohen, University of VirginiaVinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los AngelesArthur Friedman, University of ChicagoLouis A. Landa, Princeton UniversityEarl Miner, Princeton UniversitySamuel H. Monk, University of MinnesotaEverett T. Moore, University of California, Los AngelesLawrence Clark Powell, William Andrews Clark Memorial LibraryJames Sutherland, University College, LondonH. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los AngelesRobert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Beverly J. Onley, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Frances M. Reed, University of California, Los Angeles
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INTRODUCTION
The prints and engraved sequences of William Hogarth(1697-1764) inspired a wide range of dramatic entertainmentsthroughout the eighteenth century. The types include comedyof manners (The Clandestine Marriage, 1766), burletta withtableau vivant (Ut Pictura Poesis! 1789), specialty act (AModern Midnight Conversation, 1742), cantata (The RoastBeef of Old England, ca. 1759), ballad opera (The Decoy),[1]pantomime (The Jew Decoy'd and The Harlot's Progress, 1733),and a morality ballad opera (The Rake's Progress, ca. 1778-1780).Two of these are reprinted here. Theophilus Cibber's"Grotesque Pantomime Entertainment" of Hogarth's six-sceneseries "A Harlot's Progress" (1732), entitled THE HARLOT'SPROGRESS; or The Ridotto Al'Fresco," was first published 31March 1733 for its Drury Lane debut as an afterpiece.[2] Lessfamiliar is the anonymous "Dramatised Version" of Hogarth'seight-print sequence "A Rake's Progress" (1735), BritishLibrary Add. MS. 25997, entitled The Rake's Progress.[3]
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