The Corvey Novels Project at the University of Nebraska
— Studies in British Literature of the Romantic Period —
Elizabeth Gunning
The Wife with Two Husbands, a Tragi-Comedy
Contemporary Reviews
Poetical Register, 3 (1803), 463.
UNACTED PLAYS. The Wife with two Husbands, a Tragi-Comedy, in three Acts.
Translated from the French by Miss Gunning. 8vo. pp. 104.
This play excites considerable interest. Some
of the characters are well drawn, and the incidents are natural. The play,
however, is spun out too much, and some of the speeches are of a most immoderate
length; one of the speeches occupies no less than two pages and a half!
-Prepared by Margaret Case Croskery, Ohio Northern University, July 2003