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The Jealous Wife

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  • George Colman the Elder, detail of an oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1767; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
    In George Colman the Elder

    His next play, The Jealous Wife (1761), an adaptation of Henry Fielding’s novel Tom Jones, was one of the best comedies of the age and held its place in the stock theatrical repertoire for nearly a century. Colman collaborated with Garrick on The Clandestine Marriage (1766), a play…

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