The Brothers is a 1769 comedy play by Richard Cumberland. The play was Cumberland's breakthrough work.[1] Its complicated plot involved a villain with a virtuous young brother[2] and was set partly in Cornwall. Two years later Cumberland went on to write his most successful work The West Indian.

References

  1. ↑ Nettleton & Case p.711
  2. ↑ Sherburne & Bond p.1042

Bibliography

  • Mudford, William. The Life of Richard Cumberland. Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1812.
  • Nettleton, George H. & Case, Arthur E. British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan. Southern Illinois University Press, 1975.
  • Sherburne, George and Bond, Donald F. A Literary History of England, Volume III: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.


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