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Moral reform in comedy and culture, 1696-1747

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Ashgate, Routledge
Language
English
Pages
185

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Cover of: Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747
Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747
Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747
Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747
Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Moral reform in comedy and culture, 1696-1747
Moral reform in comedy and culture, 1696-1747
2011, Ashgate, Routledge
in English

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Seeing is believing: performing reform in Colley Cibber's Love's last shift
Sincerity as spectacle: Susanna Centlivre's The gamester and George Farquhar's The inconstant
Reforming the reformer: female gaze and rake reform in Colley Cibber's The careless husband and The lady's last stake
Jokes and party strokes: whig ideology and wife-reform in Richard Steele's The tender husband and Charles Johnson's The masquerade
Horns, whores, and happy marriages: reforming jealousy in Charles Johnson's The generous husband and Benjamin Hoadly's The suspicious husband
Afterword.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, VT
Series
Performance in the long eighteenth century : studies in theatre, music, dance, Performance in the long eighteenth century

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
822/.052309355
Library of Congress
PR708.C6 G65 2011, PR708.C6, PR708.C6 G655 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 185 p. :
Number of pages
185

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25194058M
ISBN 10
1409417964, 1409417972
ISBN 13
9781409417965, 9781409417972
LCCN
2011001768
OCLC/WorldCat
698626355, 950471862, 753315964

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