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Gómez-Lara, Manuel J.
María José Mora and Manuel J. Gómez-Lara are associate professors of English at the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain. They are members of the Restoration Comedy Project, which aims at reassessing the comic production of this period. They are working on an electronic database, as well as editing long-neglected pieces of this dramatic corpus.
Thomas Durfey’s «Love for Money, or The Boarding School» (1691)
Thomas Durfey’s Love for Money (1691) uses a boarding school in Chelsea as the setting for an amusing series of love intrigues. Characters include a long-lost heiress and her impoverished suitor, a mercenary jilt, a libertine rake with a touch of the gull, a bragging French coxcomb, and two hoydenish romps courted by fortune-hunting schoolmasters with treats of custard and cheesecake.