Comedy and Society from Congreve to Fielding |
Contents
ONE Introduction I | 20 |
THREE The Survival of the Restoration Stereo | 40 |
FOUR The End of the War and Change | 77 |
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1817 LIBRARIES Addison Alderman appear attitudes audience Author's Farce ballad opera Beau Beaux Beggar's Opera Blackmore Burnaby's business community Centlivre characters CHIGAN Cibber citizens City Colley Cibber Collier Congreve Congreve's Conscious Lovers contemporary conventional corruption country squires Court criticism Cuckold daughter Defoe Dennis dramatic dramatists Drury Lane Dunciad earlier early eighteenth century early-eighteenth-century economic England English essay families Farquhar fashionable Fielding's gentleman gentry George Gripe Husband Ibid includes Jeremy Collier John Jonathan Wild King Lady landed later Lincoln's Inn Fields literary literature London Lord love intrigue marriage marry mercantile merchant MICHIGAN nobility plays playwrights political portrayed prominent reformers Restoration comedy rich Richard Steele rustic satire sentimentalism seventeenth Sir Toby social rivalry society South Sea stage Steele Steele's stereotype stockjobbers taste theater theatrical theme tion Tory Town trade tradition Treaty of Utrecht TRUEMORE UNIV Vanbrugh Walpole wealth Whig wife writing young