The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times / With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period

by K. Rebillon Lambley

[1029] A. Beljame, Le Public et les hommes de lettres au 18^e siècle, Paris, 1897, p. 139.

[1030] As in Etherege's Comical Revenge or Love in a Tub, Sir Fopling Flutter, and the plays of Cibber, Vanbrugh, Mrs. Behn, Shadwell, Farquhar, Wycherley, etc.; The French Conjuror, 1678; The Beau Defeated, 1700?, etc.

[1031] A. Beljame, Quae e Gallicis verbis in Anglicam linguam Johannes Dryden introduxerit, Paris, 1881. On French influence in Restoration Drama, see Charlanne, L'Influence française en Angleterre, pp. 64 sqq.

[1032] Lettre à M. de la Chaussée: Lettres, 1745, ii. p. 240.

[1033] Narrative of her Life, written by Herself, pub. in series of Autobiographies, London, 1826, vol. vii. p. 12. Most of the writers of the time were able to write some French. Flecknoe, for instance, wrote some of his Characters in the language, and wrote a French dedication of his Poems (1652), "à la plus excellente de son sexe."

[1034] Dryden, "Prologue spoken at the opening of the new house, 26 March, 1674," Works, ed. Scott and Saintsbury, x. p. 320.

[1035] "Prologue to Arviragus and Phihera by L. Carlell, revival," Works, x. 405.

[1036] Shaw, Calendar of Treasury Books, 1660-67, p. 311.

[1037] Ibid., 1672-75, pp. 14, 24, 29, etc.; 1677-78 (vol. v.), pp. 692, 803; 1684 (vol. vii.), p. 1444.

[1038] Charles had granted two privileges: one to Henry Killigrew, who directed the King's company acting at Drury Lane, and the other to Sir William Davenant, who directed the Duke's company. The rival companies united in 1682.