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Performance in the long eighteenth century : studies in theatre, music, dance

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.

Dramatists, English > 18th century > Political and social views.

English drama (Comedy) > History and criticism.

English drama > 18th century > History and criticism.

Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.

Politics and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.

Theater and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.

Theater > Political aspects > Great Britain > History > 18th century.