Peacock's first novel is situated within its literary and historical contexts via a substantial introduction, generous notes, and annotated appendices.

Excerpt from The Plays of Thomas Love Peacock: Published for the First Time None of the collective editions of Peacock's works make any reference to these plays. Indeed, the only allusion to them is a cursory notice of a few lines in Sir Henry Cole's 'Biographical Notes of T. L. Peacock,' of which ten copies were printed and privately circulated about the year 1875. Yet the fact of this poet and novelist being a playwright as well should not come as a complete surprise. Mrs. Clarke states in her short biographical notice of her grandfather that while on board the Venerable as far back as 1808 he used to write prologues for the plays acted by the sailors. We know also that he contributed a prologue and epilogue for Tobin's comedy of 'The Guardians,' which appeared on the stage eight years later. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A satire on Byronism and pessimism in general. A gathering of eccentric characters in a country house, including Mr Glowry, his son Scythrop and Mr Toobad, leads to a series of absurd incidents.

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