Overview
Adapted from Henry Fielding’s 18th-century
novel, this screenplay was made into the 1963 film, but is also eminently
suitable for stage productions, with a large cast of varied characters. Tom
Jones is a foundling child taken in by a kindly landowner in Somerset. He grows
up to fall in love with the daughter of a neighboring landowner, but their
relationship is at first opposed because of his illegitimate background.