Download or read book The Author's Farce (original Version) written by Henry Fielding and published by Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and second acts deal with the attempts of the central character, Harry Luckless, to woo his landlady's daughter, and his efforts to make money by writing plays. In the second act, he finishes a puppet theatre play titled The Pleasures of the Town, about the Goddess Nonsense's choice of a husband from allegorical representatives of theatre and other literary genres. After its rejection by one theatre, Luckless's play is staged at another. The third act becomes a play within a play, in which the characters in the puppet play are portrayed by humans. The Author's Farce ends with a merging of the play's and the puppet show's realities.