… Coleman that had all been written between 1755 and 1768 at Drury Lane . 7 Yet it was mostly Claude Pierre Patu’s 1756 publication of Choix de petites pièces du Théâtre anglais that formed ‘a piquant contrast to our timid national taste, …
… was that man was a greater enemy to himself than he was to others, and that his efforts were better pursued in active public life. A familiar account to many readers of didactic literature from this period was that of Diogenes of Sinope, …