Comedy and Society from Congreve to Fielding |
Contents
ONE Introduction I | 1 |
TWO Social Rivalry and Critical Controversy | 20 |
THREE The Survival of the Restoration Stereo | 43 |
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Addison Alderman allusion antagonism appear assumptions attitudes audience Author's Farce ballad opera Beau Beaux Beggar's Opera Blackmore Burnaby Burnaby's business community Centlivre characters Charles Cibber citizens City Colley Cibber Collier Congreve Congreve's Conscious Lovers contemporary conventional corruption country squires Court Covent Garden criticism Cuckold daughter Defoe Dennis dramatists Drury Lane Dunciad earlier early eighteenth century early-eighteenth-century economic England English essay families Farquhar fashionable Fielding's gentle gentleman gentry George Gripe Husband Ibid includes Jeremy Collier John Jonathan Wild King Lady land later Lincoln's Inn Fields literary literature London Lord love intrigue marriage marry ment mercantile Miller nobility Pasquin plays playwrights POHETOHEE political portrayed prominent reformers Restoration comedy rich Richard Steele rustic satire sentimentalism seventeenth Sir Toby society South Sea stage Steele Steele's stockjobbers taste theater theatrical theme tion Tory Town trade Treaty of Utrecht TRUEMORE Vanbrugh Walpole wealth Whig wife writing young