Crabbed Age and Youth: The Old Men and Women in the Restoration Comedy of Manners |
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Page 41
... Wou'd if She Cou'd and The Man of Mode ; or , Sir Fopling Flutter ( 1676 ) did not soften Etherege's treatment of the older figures on the fringes of , or expelled from , the inner circle . The representatives of old age have , however ...
... Wou'd if She Cou'd and The Man of Mode ; or , Sir Fopling Flutter ( 1676 ) did not soften Etherege's treatment of the older figures on the fringes of , or expelled from , the inner circle . The representatives of old age have , however ...
Page 149
... wou'd be to be pity'd , by my Troth , wou'd they ; if we shou'd quit the Stage , and leave ' em nothing but a parcel of young pert Sluts . . . . But don't let ' em fear , - we a'n't going yet . . But I have found Men strangely dull ...
... wou'd be to be pity'd , by my Troth , wou'd they ; if we shou'd quit the Stage , and leave ' em nothing but a parcel of young pert Sluts . . . . But don't let ' em fear , - we a'n't going yet . . But I have found Men strangely dull ...
Page 187
... Wou'd if She Cou'd ) , 38 ; on She Wou'd if She Cou'd , 40 ; on Major Oldfox ( The Plain Dealer ) , 55 ; on Widow Blackacre ( The Plain Dealer ) , 56 ; on Con- greve , 94 , 95 ; on Heartwell ( The Old Batchelor ) , 98 ; on The Old ...
... Wou'd if She Cou'd ) , 38 ; on She Wou'd if She Cou'd , 40 ; on Major Oldfox ( The Plain Dealer ) , 55 ; on Widow Blackacre ( The Plain Dealer ) , 56 ; on Con- greve , 94 , 95 ; on Heartwell ( The Old Batchelor ) , 98 ; on The Old ...
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acter Aesop Amlet amorous Aphra Behn attitude toward old beau Bellair Bellmour Bevil char Cibber Colley Cibber comedy of manners comic Congreve Congreve's contrast cuckold daughter decay Dobrée Dogget Dorimant dramatic dramatist Dryden Elizabethan English Etherege Farquhar Fletcher folly Fondlewife fool Foresight Gentleman George Farquhar Heartwell Heartwell's Hippolita Hoyden humour husband Ibid John Dryden John Vanbrugh Lady Cockwood Lady Fantast Lady Loveyouth Lady Wishfort Lady Woodvil laugh Learchus live London Lord Nonsuch Love lovers Madam marry Mirabel Mode Molière mother never old age Old Batchelor Old Bellair old characters old father Old Lady Old Mirabel old woman play plot Puritan Restoration comedy ridiculous says scene scorn senile Shadwell's shou'd Sir Paul Sir Samp Sir Sampson Sir Tunbelly Sir Wilfull social stage thee Thomas Shadwell thou art tion Vanbrugh Widow wife Wild Gallant William Congreve William Wycherley women wou'd Wycherley Wycherley's Young Fashion younger characters youth