The Battle of Hastings (play)

This article is about the 1778 play. For other uses, see Battle of Hastings (disambiguation).

The Battle of Hastings is a 1778 play by the English writer Richard Cumberland. It is a tragedy set around the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It was staged at the Drury Lane Theatre in October 1778^[1] by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Sheridan later mocked Cumberland's sensitivity to criticism by modelling the character Sir Fretful Plagiary, in his 1779 play The Critic, after him. ^[2]

References

↑ Nicoll p.78
↑ Baines, Ferraro & Rogers p.87

Bibliography

Baines, Paul & Ferraro, Julian & Rogers, Pat. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Mudford, William. The Life of Richard Cumberland. Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1812.
Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of English Drama 1660-1900. Volume III: Late Eighteenth Century Drama. Cambridge University Press, 1952.

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