{"product_id":"my-wife-or-my-place-a-petite-comedy-in-two-acts","title":"My Wife or My Place; A petite comedy, in two acts.","description":"\u003cp\u003eStab-stitched 16mo; 46, (2) pp. First American edition, lacking numeral \"3\" in p.31 pagination; bottom corner 37-42 torn, just grazing the outermost letters. A comedy of marriage and domestic life that debuted in London at the Haymarket Theatre August 20, 1831. 6 copies in OCLC. Reviewed in the London \u003cem\u003eExaminer\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003cem\u003e \"...\u003c\/em\u003eit is the best farce that has been produced at this theatre for some time; but it is one of which a courtly censor would never have permitted the representation; indeed, three years ago there would have been some risk of the author being prosecuted for a seditious libel, and no doubt that the Chief Justice would have held the submission of the manuscript to the authorities of the Lord Chamberlain's office a malicious publication. \u003cem\u003eMy Wife or My Place, \u003c\/em\u003econveys its fable in its title; hundreds of all ranks have had an opportunity of considering the question; and though many have endeavoured to blink the alternative, and to persuade themselves that their own merit, and not my lady's beauty, was the cause of their promotion, a sufficient number of noble and right honourable persons have submitted to the compromise, to make the hits of the farce exceedingly piquant; and the self-denial of its hero almost meritorious.\" (\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e8\/28\/1831, p.6)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shannon, C[harles]. and T[homas] J[ames] Thackeray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46422840377494,"sku":"Q2325","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-89_73bcdf22-3a7f-4c95-9451-f8c5c6c3e49b.jpg?v=1781556363","url":"https:\/\/alsobooksbooks.com\/products\/my-wife-or-my-place-a-petite-comedy-in-two-acts","provider":"Haec City \/ Also Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}