The Lost Lover (play)

The Lost Lover; or The Jealous Husband: A Comedy, Delarivier Manley's first published play, was performed in March 1696 at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The performance ran only three nights.[1]

Title page of The Lost Lover.

Characters

As listed in the original script: Men

• Sir Rustic Good-Heart, an ill-bred country gentleman
• Wilmore, Rustic's son
• Wildman, Rustic's friend
• Sir Amorous Courtall
• Smyrna, a Turkey Merchant
• Pulse, a Physician
• Knowlittle, a Fortune-teller
• Timothy, his Man
• Ready, servant to Wildman

Women

• Lady Young-Love, an Old, vain, conceited Lady
• Marina, her daughter
• Belira, secret mistress to Wilmore
• Orinda, an affected poetess
• Olivia, Smyrna's Wife
• Isabella, woman to Lady Young-Love
• Phoebe, Olivia's maid
• Page
• Servants

External Works

• Full text of The Lost Lover available at Emory Women Writers Resource Project
• The London Stage Part I

References

1. Carnell, Rachel (2008). A Political Biography of Delarivier Manley. London: Pickering & Chatto. pp. 83–112. ISBN 9781851965748.