Out of the frying pan into the fire a tragi-comi-operatic farce

Folger bibliographic ID: 220126
Folger call number: D.a.12
Folger holdings ID: 249343
Accession Number: cs440

A parody of Green's Friar Bacon and Frian Bungay. Quotes and parodies passages from Shakespeare. Probably played by amateurs; one of the players was the author. The fifth air to be sung to the tune of Thomson's "Rule Britannia" which was published in 1740

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Portions also available as a digital reproduction Original marbled boards, new cloth backstrip (Folger 1953)

Extended title: Out of the frying pan into the fire a tragi-comi-operatic farce, ca. 1750

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Greene, Robert, 1558-1592

subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
subject: Greene, Robert, 1558-1592