Next Door Neighbours: A Comedy; In Three Acts

Name: Next Door Neighbours: A Comedy; In Three Acts
Author: Néricault Destouches

by Néricault Destouches, Mrs. Inchbald, Louis-Sébastien Mercier

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"From the French Dramas L'Indigent & Le Dissipateur" [by Mercier and Destouches].

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Delphine Lettau and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net

Release date

2012-02-04

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

English drama (Comedy)

About the authors

Néricault Destouches

1680–1754

A French dramatist and diplomat of the early Enlightenment, he is remembered for comedies that mix sharp social observation with a humane view of ambition, vanity, and self-deception. His plays helped bridge the world of Molière and the more polished stage comedy of the 18th century.

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Mrs. Inchbald

1753–1821

An English novelist, actress, and dramatist, she moved from the stage into a successful writing career and became one of the best-known literary women of her time. Her fiction is still remembered for its sharp social observation and emotional force.

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Louis-Sébastien Mercier

1740–1814

A sharp-eyed writer of pre-Revolutionary Paris, this French novelist and dramatist turned everyday city life into vivid social criticism. He is best remembered for the sprawling portrait of Paris in Tableau de Paris and for imagining the future in one of literature’s early utopian novels.

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