Squire Trelooby Explained

Squire Trelooby
Date Of Premiere:	30 March 1704^[1]
Original Language:	English
Place:	Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre
Genre:	Comedy

Squire Trelooby is a 1704 farce by the writers William Congreve, John Vanbrugh and William Walsh. All were members of the Kit-Cat Club, and another member, Samuel Garth, wrote a prologue. The farce was inspired by the French play Monsieur de Pourceaugnac by Molière.

In 1734 James Ralph wrote The Cornish Squire, a reworking of the play which was staged at the Drury Lane Theatre.^[2] It was considered a great success, and was followed by another version The Brave Irishman by Thomas Sheridan at Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre in 1744.^[3]

Bibliography

• Burling, William J. A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700–1737. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1992.
• Field, Ophelia. The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation. HarperCollins 2009.
• Sheldon, Esther K. Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley. Princeton University Press, 2015.

Notes and References

1. Burling p. 36
2. Burling p. 159
3. Sheldon pp. 20–21