The Canterbury Guests

1694 comedy play

The Canterbury Guests

Written by| Edward Ravenscroft
Date premiered| September 1694
Place premiered| Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
Original language| English
Genre| Restoration Comedy

The Canterbury Guests; or, A Bargain Broken is a 1694 comedy play by the English writer Edward Ravenscroft. It was the only new work performed by the United Company that autumn, amidst tensions that eventually led to a split.[1]

The original cast included Cave Underhill as Sir Barnaby Buffler, William Bowen as Justice Greedy, John Verbruggen as Lovell, George Powell as Carless, Thomas Dogget as Dash, William Pinkethman as Jack Sawce, Thomas Kent as Toby, George Bright as Durzo, Jane Rogers as Jacinta, Susanna Verbruggen as Hillaria, Abigail Lawson as Mrs Dazie, Frances Maria Knight as Arabella and Mary Kent as Mrs Breeder. The incidental music was composed by Henry Purcell.

## References

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1. ^ Price p.198

## Bibliography

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* Price, Curtis A. Henry Purcell and the London Stage. Cambridge University Press, 1984.

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Restoration comedy

Playwrights|

* Aphra Behn
* Susanna Centlivre
* Colley Cibber
* William Congreve
* John Dryden
* Thomas d'Urfey
* George Etherege
* George Farquhar
* Edward Howard
* James Howard
* Robert Howard
* Thomas Otway
* Charles Sedley
* Thomas Shadwell
* Thomas Southerne
* Richard Steele
* John Vanbrugh
* George Villiers
* William Wycherley

Notable plays|

* The Cutter of Coleman Street (1661)
* The Adventures of Five Hours (1663)
* The Comical Revenge (1664)
* The Mulberry-Garden (1668)
* She Would If She Could (1668)
* An Evening's Love (1668)
* Sir Solomon Single (1670)
* Love in a Wood (1671)
* The Rehearsal (1671)
* Epsom Wells (1672)
* Marriage à la mode (1672)
* The Country Wife (1675)
* Love in the Dark (1675)
* The Country Wit (1676)
* The Plain-Dealer (1676)
* The Man of Mode (1676)
* Tom Essence (1676)
* A Fond Husband (1677)
* Friendship in Fashion (1678)
* Squire Oldsapp (1678)
* Tunbridge Wells (1678)
* A True Widow (1678)
* The Woman Captain (1679)
* The London Cuckolds (1681)
* Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681)
* The Royalist (1682)
* City Politiques (1683)
* Dame Dobson (1683)
* A Commonwealth of Women (1685)
* Sir Courtly Nice (1685)
* Bellamira (1687)
* A Fool's Preferment (1688)
* The Squire of Alsatia (1688)
* Bury Fair (1689)
* The Fortune Hunters (1689)
* The English Friar (1690)
* Sir Anthony Love (1690)
* Love for Money (1691)
* The Wives Excuse (1691)
* Greenwich Park (1691)
* The Marriage-Hater Matched (1692)
* The Volunteers (1692)
* The Canterbury Guests (1694)
* The Married Beau (1694)
* Love for Love (1695)
* Love's Last Shift (1696)
* The Relapse (1696)
* The Campaigners (1698)
* Love and a Bottle (1698)
* The Constant Couple (1699)
* The Way of the World (1700)
* Sir Harry Wildair (1701)
* The Lying Lover (1703)
* The Careless Husband (1704)
* The Recruiting Officer (1706)
* The Beaux' Stratagem (1707)

Characters|

* Fop
* Rake

Related articles|

* Lincoln's Inn Fields Playhouse
* John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
* Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage

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Henry Purcell

List of compositions

Opera|

* Dido and Aeneas (1689)
* Dido's Lament
* discography
* Dioclesian (1690)
* King Arthur (1691)
* "Fairest Isle"
* The Fairy-Queen (1692)
* The Indian Queen (1695)

Choral|

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* "Remember not, Lord, our offences" (c. 1679–82)
* "Hear my prayer, O Lord" (c. 1682)
* "Rejoice in the Lord alway" (c. 1683–85)
* Ode to St. Cecilia (1692)
* Funeral Sentences and Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary (1695, "Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts")

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Secular|

* Come Ye Sons of Art (1694)

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Incidental|

* "Music for a While" (1692)
* "Nymphs and Shepherds" (1692)
* "Britons, Strike Home!" (1695)
* Theodosius (1680)
* Sir Barnaby Whigg (1681)
* A Fool's Preferment (1688)
* The Massacre of Paris (1689)
* Amphitryon (1690)
* Distressed Innocence (1690)
* Sir Anthony Love (1690)
* The Richmond Heiress (1691)
* Epsom Wells (1693)
* The Female Virtuosos (1693)
* The Canterbury Guests (1694)
* The Fatal Marriage (1694)
* Love Triumphant (1694)
* Abdelazer (1695)
* Bonduca (1695)
* The Rival Sisters (1695)

Family|

* Daniel Purcell
* Edward Purcell
* Edward Henry Purcell

Related|

* The Moor's Pavane
* "Lillibullero"

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