The Cultivated Stance: The Designs of Congreve's Plays

action actors Almeria Angelica artifice audience beauty Bellmour Bonamy Dobrée Brisk characters Collier comic Congreve's Congreve's plays contrived Country Wife Cultivated Stance Cynthia Dealer death define desire dialogue dramatic dramatist Dryden emotions Essay Etherege Fainall Fainall's father festive Foible fool fops fractures greve's Heartwell hero heroic husband illusion Jeremy John Dryden Kathleen Lynch Lady Froth Lady Touchwood Lady Wishfort libertine Locke Locke's London Lord Touchwood Love for Love lovers marriage marry Marwood mask Maskwell Maskwell's masque Mellefont Millamant Millamant's Mirabell Mirabell's mistress Molière moral Mourning Bride Mourning Bride &c natural Old Batchelor passion pleasure poem poet poetic poetry political proscenium prose reality Restoration comedy revolution Scandal scene seems Semele Silvia Sir Paul Sir Sampson Sir Wilfull social society sustained Tattle temporal theatre Theatre Royal theatrical tragedy Vainlove Valentine Vanity voice Whig Wife William Congreve Witwoud World Wycherley young