Squire Trelooby
{{Short description|1704 play by William Congreve}}
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| name = Squire Trelooby
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| writer = William Congreve
John Vanbrugh
William Walsh
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| date of premiere = 30 March 1704Burling p. 36
| original language = English
| place = Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre
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| genre = Comedy
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Squire Trelooby is a 1704 farce by the writers William Congreve, John Vanbrugh and William Walsh. All were members of the Kit-Cat Club, and another member, Samuel Garth, wrote a prologue. The farce was inspired by the French play Monsieur de Pourceaugnac by Molière.
In 1734 James Ralph wrote The Cornish Squire, a reworking of the play which was staged at the Drury Lane Theatre.Burling p. 159 It was considered a great success, and was followed by another version The Brave Irishman by Thomas Sheridan at Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre in 1744.Sheldon pp. 20–21
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Bibliography
- Burling, William J. A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700–1737. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1992.
- Field, Ophelia. The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation. HarperCollins 2009.
- Sheldon, Esther K. Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley. Princeton University Press, 2015.
Category:Plays by William Congreve
Category:Plays by John Vanbrugh
Category:Plays based on works by Molière
Category:Works based on Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
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