… the things so called of his acquaintance) vote him a most accomplisht Gentleman, and the Blades swear he is a Walking Comedy, the only Merry Andrew of the Age, that scatters Wit wherever he comes, as Beggars do Lice, or Muskcats perfumes, …
… and by imaginative extension, the new built streets of Britain’s other major cities, provide the backdrop for a modern comedy of manners in which ever more complex social codes are negotiated (or not). 8 This strand of literature would …
… was their instrumentalization by tyrannical patriarchs. In his 1771 drama ( The Man of the Family . A Sentimental Comedy ), Charles Jenner displayed a generational conflict between the young Charles and his ‘poor father’ who urged him …
… 148). She surmised that it was due to the sociological nature of the spectators since, in Britain, nobles despised comedy, which was the realm of the bourgeoisie. She nonetheless asserted that, although the taste for such characters was …
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… and Henry Thrale’s literary salon at Streatham, where she even learned Latin with Dr Samuel Johnson , if only briefly. A comedy she composed at this time, The Witlings , centres on the literary circles of the day, but because family and …
… 1803), p. 94-95. Macklin’s successful transformation of Shylock from the pedestrian commedia dell’arte figure of low comedy to a tragic anti-hero and villain gave him access to social circles previously inaccessible to a former Irish …
… These novels insist on the sociability of larger spa towns as a marriage market. In spa comedies, a subgenre of the comedy of manners set in a spa town used by Sheridan and Colman, the marriage market is a pretence for facilitating all …
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