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Page 138
... Cibber's Love's Last Shift ; or , The Fool in Fashion preceded , and Richard Sheridan's comedy , A Trip to Scarborough , followed The Relapse . The first was Vanbrugh's stimulus to write his comedy ; the second , an adaptation of The ...
... Cibber's Love's Last Shift ; or , The Fool in Fashion preceded , and Richard Sheridan's comedy , A Trip to Scarborough , followed The Relapse . The first was Vanbrugh's stimulus to write his comedy ; the second , an adaptation of The ...
Page 139
... Cibber- Loveless , Amanda , and Sir Novelty Fashion ( Lord Foppington ) . In the Cibber play Sir William Wise- wou'd is " a rich old gentleman , that fancies himself a great master of his passion , which he only is in trivial matters ...
... Cibber- Loveless , Amanda , and Sir Novelty Fashion ( Lord Foppington ) . In the Cibber play Sir William Wise- wou'd is " a rich old gentleman , that fancies himself a great master of his passion , which he only is in trivial matters ...
Page 176
... Cibber and Steele are unrelated to those of Wycherley and Con- greve . The social mode of comedy was revolutionized to a degree which made the Wishforts and the Old- foxes a vanished race . It is not dramatic evolution which is to be ...
... Cibber and Steele are unrelated to those of Wycherley and Con- greve . The social mode of comedy was revolutionized to a degree which made the Wishforts and the Old- foxes a vanished race . It is not dramatic evolution which is to be ...
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