lying, lover, lady, friendship, 1703, comedy, play, irish, writer, richard, steele, second, play, written, while, army, office, doing, garrison, duty, harwich, during, spanish, succession, described, being, both, restoration, comedy, sentimental, comedy, marke. The Lying Lover Or The Lady s Friendship is a 1703 comedy play by the Irish writer Richard Steele It was his second play written while he was an army office doing garrison duty in Harwich during the War of the Spanish Succession It is described as being both a restoration comedy and a sentimental comedy and marked the transition between the two The Lying LoverWritten byRichard SteeleDate premiered2 December 1703Place premieredTheatre Royal Drury Lane LondonOriginal languageEnglishGenreRestoration ComedySettingLondon present day It premiered at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London The original cast included Philip Griffin as Old Bookwit Robert Wilks as Young Bookwit John Mills as Lovemore Colley Cibber as Latine William Pinkethman as Storm William Bullock as Charcoal Jane Rogers as Penelope Jane Lucas as Lettice Susannah Cox as Betty and Anne Oldfield as Victoria 1 The published version was dedicated to the Duke of Ormonde an Irish politician and soldier References edit Van Lennep p 50Bibliography editBurling William J A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage 1700 1737 Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press 1992 Van Lennep W The London Stage 1660 1800 Volume Two 1700 1729 Southern Illinois University Press 1960 External links edit nbsp The Lying Lover public domain audiobook at LibriVox nbsp This article on a play from the 1700s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The Lying Lover amp oldid 1082820374, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
