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… year, and lasted between one and two hours. However, fellows were sometimes accused of coming to meetings ‘only as to a play to amuse themselves for an hour or so’ (Hunter, Establishing the New Science , 204). A few years into their … especially when faced with the common question from critics, ‘What have they done?’, and satirical commentary from plays like Thomas Shadwell’s The Virtuoso (1676). 19 Such an atmosphere had arguably led to the composition of Sprat’s …
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