The basset table
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The basset table
（Broadview editions）
Broadview Press, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-165)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Basset Table follows the fortunes of Lady Reveller, who runs a table where her friends play the card game basset, and her struggle to avoid marrying Lord Worthy. Meanwhile, Lady Reveller's cousin, Valeria, spends her time conducting scientific experiments and dissections, but her father intends to marry her off to the bluff sea-captain Hearty. How can Lady Reveller be persuaded to forego the delights of gambling? And how can Valeria avoid an unwanted marriage? This witty play paints a seductive picture of the thrills of the Restoration gaming table and challenges contemporary stereotypes of the learned lady.
Appendices to this Broadview Edition include materials on female education, gambling, and writing for the stage, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century critical writing on Centlivre and The Basset Table.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Susanna Centlivre: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Basset Table
Textual Notes
Appendix A: Female Education
From Mary Astell, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1697)
Satire on Mary Astell, The Tatler ( June 1709)
From Daniel Defoe, An Essay upon Projects (1697)
From Bathsua Makin, An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen in Religion, Manners, Arts and Tongues (1673)
From Mary Chudleigh, Essay on Several Subjects in Prose and Verse (1710)
Appendix B: Gambling
From Charles Cotton, "Basset," The Compleat Gamester (1710)
From Joseph Addison, The Guardian (1713)
From Jeremy Collier, An Essay upon Gaming (1713)
From Theophilus Lucas, Memoirs of the Lives, Intrigues, and Comical Adventures of the most Famous Gamesters (1714)
Appendix C: Writing for the Stage
Susanna Centlivre, Dedication to The Platonick Lady (1707)
Susanna Centlivre, Preface to Love's Contrivance (1703)
From Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698)
From John Dennis, The Usefulness of the Stage (1698)
From Colley Cibber, The Lady's Last Stake (1707)
Appendix D: Criticism of Centlivre and The Basset Table
From Arthur Bedford, The Evil and Danger of Stage Plays (1706)
From Richard Cumberland, "Critique," The British Drama (1817)
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