INDEX

Abington, Frances, 4, 456

abolition of slavery, 30, 152, 155, 163,
1712, 211, 248n66
Addison, Joseph, 14, 15, 78, 101, 102
advertisements, 23
aesthetics, 70, 81, 181, 183, 185, see also connoisseurship
African slaves, 172, 173, see also slavery
afterpieces, 12, 13, 1718, 21, 12548
Alexander, W., 112
Alien Bill (1792), 94
American independence, 27, 48, 110, 120,
155, 157
ancient Greek culture, 134, 140, 142, 145,
189
Anderson, Misty, 28, 53, 57
Andrew, Donna, 128
Anti-Jacobin Review, 71, 156, 212
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 101
The Arabian Nights stories, 17, 152, 155
Arbuthnot, Dr John, 20
Ariostos Orlando Furioso, 74
Aristotelian tragedy, 14, 15, 16, 19, 73, 81
Aristotle, 80, 133
Arne, Thomas, Rule Britannia, 26, 61, 79
Arnolds, Obi, 145
Astell, Mary, 172
audiences, 22, 24, 37, 109, 2089
Austen, Jane, 11
Austrian empire, 152
Ayscough, G. E., 102

ballooning, 1378, 173

Banks, John, 15, 74, 76, 101, 108
Banks, Lady Dorothea, 190
Banks, Sarah Sophia, 190
Banks, Sir Joseph, 190
Bannister, John, 140
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia, 11
Barreca, Susan, 39, 512
Barrell, John, 185, 189
Barry, Elizabeth, 106
Bastille, fall of the (1789), 163, 165
Beauclerk, Lady Diana, 187
Behn, Aphra, 40, 50, 57, 91, 136, 171, 211,
212
farce, 21
HC compared to, 196
The Lucky Chance, 49, 52, 54
oriental theme, 152
self-fashioning, 183
as source for HC, 23, 28, 33, 36, 163
Belgium, 119
benefit performances, 219n41
Bennett, Susan, 152
Bentley, Eric, 137
Bermingham, Ann, 200
Betterton, Thomas, 21
Bhabha, Homi, 169
Bickerstaffe, Isaac, 16, 40, 149, 154, 159,
163, 165, 169
Bilger, Audrey, 39, 55, 226 n33
Birch, Samuel, 18
Blair, Hugh, 19, 133
Blank, Antje, 45
Blenheim Palace, 143
Boaden, James, 83, 211
Bolton, Betsy, 158, 169, 248n72

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Backscheider, Paula, 71, 92, 94, 183

Baillie, Joanna, 20, 82, 94, 103, 169, 181,
205, 209
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 57
Ballaster, Ros, 152, 172

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bon ton society, 3, 8, 14, 17, 29, 36, 47, 50, 59,
61, 66, 126, 1423, 147, 166, 174, 205
Boswell, James, 8
Brand, Hannah, 179
Bratton, Jackie, 209
British parliamentary system, 165, see also
Houses of Parliament
Brooke, Frances, 7, 23, 101, 236n5
Brooke, Henry, 102
Brooks, Peter, 152
Brown, Laura, 209
Browne, Henrietta, 157
Burgoyne, General, 16, 63
Burke, Edmund, 83, 88, 89, 90, 94, 96, 98,
103, 155, 1767, 185, 235n111
and citizenship, 157
A Philosophical Enquiry, 29, 801, 97
Reflections on the Revolution in France,
103, 175, 179
speech in support of the Alien Bill, 94, see
also the sublime
Burney, Fanny, 1, 11, 38, 39, 72, 73, 78, 103,
126, 179, 213, 234n96
and debating societies, 130
HCs poem in admiration of, 258n150
poor acting, 242n35
Burney, Susan, 154
Burroughs, Catherine, 169
Bute, Lord, 147, 244n89
Byron, Lord, 20

Chesterfield, Lord, 59
Choudhury, Mita, 248n72
Christianity, 1634
Cibber, Colley, 14, 36, 37, 38, 50, 126, 208,
209
Cicero, 133, 135, 136
citizenship, 109, 112, 113, 1578, 1745
civic virtue, 30, 72, 73, 81, 84, 85, 86, 95, 97,
99, 164, 167, 182, 187, 213
connoisseurship and, 188
The Fall of Sparta, 101, 108, 111, 123
female, 11217, 155
gender and, 11217, 155, 172
oratory and, 127, 131
sculpture and, 185
Spartan mothers and, 11112
Cobb, James, 18, 127
The Siege of Belgrade, 149, 1524, 159,
166, 179
Cobbett, William, 71
Cock, Christopher, 58
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 211
Colley, Linda, 6, 26, 61, 62, 114, 157, 163
Collins, William, 80
Colman, George (the Elder), 14, 23, 24, 62,
72, 75, 138, 155
Colman, George (the Younger), 9, 13, 16,
20, 21, 72, 1301, 152, 171
comedy, 16, 21, 24, 3367
class and social mobility, 5661
farce, 2, 13, 17, 20, 21, 137, 154
female action in HCs, 428
HCs theories of, 3741, 126, 181
JanuaryMay marriage, 536
laughing, 36, 38
marriage, 42, 445, 4853
musical, 16, 17, 125, 14979
New, 36, 513
patriotism and, 612
politics and, 626
subdivisions of, 1314
comic opera, 16, 152
conduct literature, 126
Congreve, William, 14, 36, 37, 73, 74, 76,
91, 103, 208
connoisseurship
and collecting, 18890
female, 28, 182, 184, 197201

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Campbell, George, 133
Canfield, J. Douglas, 88
Canova, 188
Carlisle House, 45, 128
Carlson, Susan, 52
Carter, Elizabeth, 140
Catherine the Great, 119, 154, 158, 167
Catholicism, 163, 196
Cavendish, Margaret, 20
Celesia, Dorothy, 78, 79, 102, 236n5
censorship, 91, 146, 162, 163
Centlivre, Susanna, 17, 20, 21, 36, 46, 72,
136, 138, 139, 141, 181, 198, 205
Chadwick, Whitney, 200
Chandler, David, 103, 179
Charlotte, Queen, 9, 42, 62, 136, 179
Chatham, Lady, 146

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satirized, 1924
voyeurism and, 195201
Connolly, John, 58, 193
Coriolanus (Shakespeare), 101, 103
Corneille, Pierre, 102
corruption, 624, 1212, 148, 157, 165,
167, 168, 177, 213, see also bon ton
society
Cosway, Maria, 8, 1901, 200, 254n60,
254n63
Cosway, Richard, 3, 8, 33, 1901
counterfeit connoisseurship, 63, 182, 207
Covent Garden, 3, 21, 26, 33, 69, 131, 144,
149, 150, 176
Cowley, Hannah
dramas
Albina, Countess Raimond, 9, 11, 12,
20, 24, 6970, 7399, 103
anti-hero in, 934, 96
contrasting models of womanhood
in, 859
erotic language toned down in,
912
experimentation in, 767
love and sexual jealousy in, 8393,
96
passions and, 802, 939
plotting, 736
preface to, 7780, 143
prologue to, 823
Belles Stratagem, 3, 4, 9, 11, 12, 23, 26,
33, 35, 41, 47, 53, 58, 125
commodification of art in, 194
fashion and luxury in, 645
female action in, 42, 445
grand tour in, 190, 196
marriage in, 489
masquerade scene in, 26, 40, 42, 44,
45, 489, 62, 65, 163
patriotism in, 61, 163
provincial performances of, 212
royal dedication, 9, 42, 62, 179
sexual innuendo in, 40
voyeuristic connoisseurship in, 195
A Bold Stroke for a Husband, 9, 28,
33, 42, 457, 50, 65, 165, 195, 212,
234n90

291
A Day in Turkey; or The Russian Slaves,
1, 3, 8, 11, 16, 24, 27, 37, 47, 53, 125,
14979
colonial and sexual slavery in, 1715
imperial project in, 15569, 1759
oriental stereotypes in, 16971
references to a womans mind, 501
The Fate of Sparta; or The Rival Kings, 7,
1011, 15, 27, 57, 80
female civic virtue in, 11217
HCs use of Plutarchs Lives, 10310
imperial decline in, 1204
Spartan mothers in, 11112, 176
tyrannical rulers in, 11720
Lady Fashions Rout (pantomime
scene), 2, 1718, 24, 125, 1438
More Ways than One, 23, 4, 9, 10, 33,
41, 49, 51, 535, 58, 1945
The Runaway, 34, 8, 11, 22, 26, 33, 38,
523, 59, 69, 103, 125, 143, 177
attack on pedantry in, 194
exposure of corruption in, 624
A School for Greybeards: or The Mourning Bride, 11, 28, 33, 42, 4950,
545, 59, 91, 163, 212
The School of Eloquence, 18, 12636,
194
The Town Before You, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14,
28, 33, 37, 50, 51, 58, 64, 66, 1256,
163
connoisseurship in, 182, 183,
20210
female sculptor in, 185, 191
pedantry in, 1945
Which is the Man?, 9, 11, 26, 33, 42,
147, 202, 212, 226n43
debased lifestyle of the upper class
in, 5961
deprecation of grand tour in, 196
patriotism in, 62
political corruption in, 64
sexuality in, 478, 50
Whos the Dupe?, 17, 39, 40, 55, 58, 82,
125, 13643, 194
Works, 2, 3, 4, 12, 14, 37, 42, 63, 64, 78,
82, 84, 101, 111, 139, 150, 168, 176,
211, 212, 230n132

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The World as it Goes: or A Party at

Montpelier, 910, 27, 28, 40, 50, 51,
52, 56, 59, 65, 77, 177, 182, 184, 194,
196, 197201, 206
opinions
on marriage, 7, 28, 115
theories of comedy, 3741, 126, 181
on tragedy, 7780
personal life
after retirement from the theatre, 12,
208, 21013
knowledge of the theatre, 36, 7
in Paris, 8, 11
portraits of, 3, 4, 5, 34
upbringing and education in Tiverton,
68
poetry, 38
Edwina the Huntress, 7, 148
The Maid of Aragon, 6, 11, 24
under pseudonym Anna Matilda, 10
The Scottish Village, 11
The Siege of Acre, 12, 24, 21011
professional life, 612
American productions of plays, 136,
212
chauvinism, 267
commercial success, 33, 69, 109, 136,
149, 212
critical reviews, 1, 40, 69, 756, 106,
109, 110, 132, 149, 162, 182, 1967
dramatists chains, 223
eclectic use of sources, 41
failures, 910, 40
language cut or toned down, 912,
2045
manipulation of career, 1112
plagiarism accusations, 41, 79,
226nn434
politics and, 102, 110, 1501, 152, 155,
1623
praise for, 33, 36, 41, 44, 1034, 159
reputation and legacy of, 21213
revivals, 258n152
rivalries, 1011, 278, 243n74
translations of works, 212, 258n141
Cowley, John, 7, 11, 64, 121, 226n43
Cowley, Thomas, 7, 9, 10, 167
Cox, Jeffrey N., 13, 169

Crbillon, C. P. J. de, 156, 162

Crisp, Samuel, 39
cross-dressing, 28, 29, 39, 46, 55, 141,
241n29
Crouch, Anna Maria, 4
Crowne, John, 41
Cruikshank, George, 81, 94, 152
Cumberland, Richard, 9, 14, 39, 41, 155,
185
Cunninghams Lives of the Most Eminent
British Painters and Sculptors, 186
Dallaway, James, 185
Damer, Anne Seymour, 181, 182, 1856,
203
dance, 12, 17, 65, 137, 149, 150, 152, 156,
159, 169, 209, 211
Darby, Barbara, 1
Darly, Mary and Matthew, 147, 244n89
Dashwood, Sir Francis, 197
David, Jacques-Louis, 187
De Groote, Joanna, 173
debating societies, 12636, 242n35
degeneracy, 147, 1678, 208
Delap, John, 102
Della Cruscan school of poets, 10, 56, 71,
155, 1767
Dennis, John, 15, 78, 80
despotism, 121, 165, 166
Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of, 30, 65,
109, 110, 123, 146, 238n50, 244n87
Dibdin, Charles, 9, 17, 20, 79, 125, 143,
144, 145, 149, 154, 243n74
Diderot, Denis, 156, 191
Divorce Bill, 127
Donald, Diana, 57, 58, 110
Donkin, Ellen, 10, 23, 79, 183
Drake, Judith, 172
dramatic genres, 1218, 67
gender and, 1924, 72
Licensing Act and, 21, 22
mixed in one play, 78, see also comedy;
tragedy; interlude; pantomime
Drury Lane, 3, 8, 9, 13, 16, 21, 70, 103, 128,
129, 136, 209, 210, 247n37
Dryden, John, 16, 74, 85, 88, 108, 116,
237n23, 237n32, 239n74
Duff, David, 13

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Dunhams British Dramatists, 44
Dunsford, Martin, 27
East, Joyce, 196, 228n77
East India Company, 7, 10, 167
Edgeworth, Maria, 142, 169
education, 19, 56, 58, 126, 135, 1401, 175
electoral system, 27, 64
Elfenbein, Andrew, 186
Ellis, F., 256n89
Ellis, Markman, 234n95
Ellison, Julie, 237n23
epic poetry, 12, 24, 21011
Esten, Harriet, 159, 160
Euripides, 102
European Magazine, 2, 212
Evans, Bertrand, 13
farce, 2, 13, 17, 20, 21, 137, 154
Farington, Joseph, 186
Farquhar, George, 14, 36, 37, 38, 126, 208
Farren, Elizabeth, 42
fashion, 18, 44, 50, 645, 125, 130, 1378,
205, 206, see also bon ton society
Fawcett, John (the younger), 168, 178, 207
Feldman, Paula, 173
female chastity, 1645
female education, 19, 126, 135, 1401
female sculptors, 1858, 20110
female villains, 74, 767, 859
femininity, 42, 73, 945, 173
British, 62
contrasting models of, 859
corrupted, 478, 50, 56, 174, 250n110
politics and, 108, 114
republican motherhood, 111
respectable, 223, 25
submissive, 46, 501
feminism, 39, 172
Ferguson, Moira, 163
Fielding, Henry, 58, 255n84
Fiske, Roger, 156
Foote, Samuel, 14, 38, 40, 58, 132, 146, 193,
197, 229n100
Fordyce, James, 30, 85
Foreman, Amanda, 168
Fowler, Alastair, 13
Fox, Charles James, 65, 110, 119, 168, 186

293

France, 110, 119, 165, 178

degeneracy, 168, 196
fraud, 589, 193, 194, 202
Frederick the Great of Prussia, 119
Frederick William II, King of Prussia, 1756
French Revolution, 27, 66, 71, 150, 151,
154, 155, 157, 158, 163, 168, 173, 176,
179
French tragedy, 15
Freud, Sigmund, 182
Gagen, Jean, 169, 204
Gardner, Sarah, 21, 23, 25, 227n59
Garrick, David, 4, 8, 9, 11, 14, 18, 23, 38, 40,
50, 62, 73, 81, 149, 163
farces, 87, 138
interludes, 127
pantomime, 145
Gay, John, 1, 17, 20, 217n3
Gay, Penny, 228n73
gender, 2, 1819, 467, 523, 213
artists and, 184, 200
citizenship and, 158
civic virtue and, 11217, 155, 172
classical education and, 136, 1401, 148,
194
collecting and, 18990
comedy and, 3940
debating societies and, 12636
dramatic genres and, 1924, 72
dramatists and, 223
education and, 126
grand tour and, 256n93
luxury and, 167
nudity and, 1989
patriotism and, 62, 112
politics and, 110, 128, 135
tragedy and, 72, 101
General Evening Post
Genest, John, 23, 41, 140, 247n41, 252n3
Gentleman, Francis, 159
Gentlemans Magazine, 3, 24
George, Prince of Wales, 8, 11819, 190,
191
George III, King, 26, 110, 11819, 136,
175, 186
Gibbon, Edward, 110, 120, 121, 122
Gifford, William, 10, 71

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Gillray, James, 81, 94, 152, 167, 168

Girdham, Jane, 13
Glorious Revolution (1688), 165
Godwin, William, 27
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 190
Goldoni, Carlo, 41, 198
Goldsmith, Oliver, 13, 14, 33, 36, 40, 41,
59, 62
Gordon Riots (1780), 71, 110, 196
Gothic drama, 13, 1516, 24, 6999, 85
Gothic novels, 71, 80, 81
grand tour, 18, 26, 127, 182, 183, 184,
18990, 1956, 198, 207
Gregory, John, 39
Griffith, Elizabeth, 79, 148
Grundy, Isobel, 23
Guest, Harriet, 612, 111, 115
Hamilton, Elizabeth, 232n28
Hamilton, Sir William, 189, 190, 197, 200
Hardwicke, Lord, 48, 51
harems, 1567, 1589, 1734
Harris, Thomas, 9, 26, 69, 77, 79, 91
Harrowby, Lady, 69
Harrowby, Nathaniel Ryder, first Baron,
67, 9, 11, 12, 27, 62, 74
Hart, Emma, 190
Hart, Isaac, 59
Hastings, Warren, 167
Hayley, William, 131, 191
Haymarket Theatre, London, 9, 16, 19, 21,
23, 24, 69, 70, 75
Hazlitt, William, 41
Henry V (Shakespeare), 230n121
heroic tragedy, 70, 74, 152
heroism, 1048
Hill, Aaron, 152, 164
Historical Memoirs of Tiverton (Dunsford), 27
historical tragedy, 72
history, 789
history paintings, 19
Hoare, Henry, 198
Hogan, Charles Beecher, 16, 136
Holcroft, Thomas, 27, 39, 41, 44, 50, 151,
163, 226nn434
Home, John, 15, 102
Hood, Samuel, 228n67

Houses of Parliament, 62, 110, 119, 123,

158
Howell, W. S., 135
Hufton, Olwen, 1819
Hume, David, 122
Hume, Robert, 14
Hungary, 119
Hurd, Richard, 70
identity
exchange, 1778
mistaken, 55, 75, 159, 202
national, 26, 59, 61, 109, 145, 155, 157,
158, 164, 196
imperialism, 1204, 15569
Inchbald, Elizabeth, 7, 11, 14, 22, 23, 33, 80,
138, 163, 169, 173, 209, 213
Incledon, Charles, 161
India, 167
interludes, 2, 17, 18, 12636
Ireland, 119, 134, 242n41
Irigaray, Luce, 174
Irving, Henry, 212
Islam, 164

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Jackman, Isaac, 137

Jackson, John, 78
Jacobean drama, 15, 70
Jefferson, Thomas, 8, 254n60
Jephson, Robert, 24, 74, 76, 77, 78, 117
jingoism, 163
Johnson, Dr, 69, 78, 174, 192
Jonson, Ben, 39
Jordan, Dorothy, 46, 227n62
journalism, 18, 57
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 101

Kant, Immanuel, 90
Kauffmann, Angellica, 8, 19, 183, 184, 188,
199, 200, 203, 211
Kelly, Gary, 174
Kelly, Hugh, 14
Kemble, John Philip, 13, 23, 103, 109
King Lear (Shakespeare), 12, 1234
kingship, 11718
Kingston, Duchess of, 197
Kinservik, Matthew, 245n11
Knight, Richard Payne, 189

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Kotzebue, Ferdinand von, 14
Kowaleski-Wallace, Beth, 163
Lacan, Jacques, 182
Lackington, James, 6
Ladys Magazine, 33, 70, 76, 109, 127, 130,
156
Laetitia, Anna, 111
Larpent, John, 162
Lawson, John, 133
Lee, Nathaniel, 15, 101, 117, 234n87,
237n23
Lee, Sophia, 21, 23, 79, 152, 230n126
Lennox, Charlotte, 130, 255n84
lesbianism, 28, 186, 201
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 14
Lever, Sir Ashton, 207
Levin, Harry, 209
Lewis, Matthew Monk, 16, 171
libertinism, 143, 182, 189, 190, 196, 201,
203
Licensing Act (1737), 21, 22, 72
Lillo, George, 14, 77, 81, 103, 108, 144, 155
Lincolns Inn Fields, 21, 137
Link, Frederick, 61, 163, 252n3
Linley, Elizabeth, 146
Lock, Frederick, 196, 205
logic, 127, 133, 135
London Chronicle, 238n44
London Corresponding Society, 178
London Evening Post, 69
London Stage, 19
Lorraine, Claude, 70
Louis XV, King, 156
Loutherbourg, Philip James de, 70, 159
luxury, 1204, 157, 1678, 196, see also
fashion
Lyceum Theatre, London, 212

295

Manley, Delarivire, 11, 20, 21, 72, 152,

255n84
Mann, Sir Horace, 186
Manners, Robert, 228n67
Mansfield, Lord, 171
marginalization, 67, 184, 1878, 200,
2078, 210
Marie Antoinette, Queen, 103, 175, 176
Marivaux, Pierre de, 177
Marmontel, Jean Franois, 138, 154, 155,
165
marriage, 39
comedy, 42, 445, 4853
economic and legal status, 48, 51
JanuaryMay comic device, 536
law, 224n175
sexual power within, 115
upper class society, 148
Marriage Act (1753), 48, 51
masculinity, 1089, 196, 198
connoisseurship and, 189
Drydens definition of, 237n32, 239n74
Mason, William, 102, 108, 233n58
Massey, Mrs, 82, 87
Mattocks, Isabella, 46, 165, 202
Mazzinghi, Joseph, 150
medley, 17
Mellor, Anne, 256n97
melodrama, 16, 17, 24, 1512, 209
Mendelson, Sarah, 20
mercenaries, 1223
Merry, Robert, 10, 56, 71, 175, 1767
Mesmer, Franz Anton, 138
A Midsummer Nights Dream (Shakespeare),
85
Milbank, A., 234n99
Militia Act (1757), 240n100
Miller, James, 80, 234n95
Milton, John, 85
misogyny, 17, 115, 123, 130, 131
Molire, 33, 41, 53, 138, 198
Montagu, Elizabeth, 15, 75, 78, 111, 130,
245n10
Montagu, Lady Barbara, 201
Montagu, Mary Wortley, 156, 172
Monthly Magazine, 27
Monthly Mirror, 208
Montpelier, France, 196, 255n84

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Macaulay, Catherine, 10, 72, 111

Macbeth (Shakespeare), 74, 94, 96, 98
Mackenzie, Henry, 14
Macklin, Charles, 14, 130, 137
Macpherson, James, 70
McWhirter, David, 52
madness, 923, 978
Makdisi, Saree, 167
Malone, Edward, 117

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Moody, Jane, 209

Moore, Edward, 108
Moore, Jane, 239n71
Moore, John, 199
More, Hannah, 23, 47, 48, 56, 72, 73, 111,
115, 173, 182
on collecting, 190
on duty of mothers, 114
The Fatal Falsehood, 9, 201, 24, 76,
778, 7980
on female warriors, 112
flowery imagery, 85
on nudity, 206
plagiarism, 79
professional rivalry with HC, 243n74
translations of classical works, 236n5
Moreton, Thomas, 16
Morning Chronicle, 8, 69, 77, 91, 128, 149
Morning Herald, 196
Morning Post, 9
Moser, Mary, 184, 203
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 96, 154, 169,
198
Much Ado about Nothing (Shakespeare), 74
Murphy, Arthur, 14, 26, 41, 47, 102, 103,
117, 129, 137, 212, 218, 229n95
music, 12, 13, 16, 17, 46, 144, 145, 159,
1678, 195, 209, 211
musical comedy, 16, 17, 125, 14979
Myers, Mitzi, 112

objectification of women, 15, 173, 183, 190,

198, 203
OBrien, John, 145, 209
Oczakow dispute, 158
ONeil, Eugene, 147
OQuinn, Daniel, 48, 165, 168, 250n95
Oracle, 14950
oratory movement, 12736
oriental drama, 152, 172
Orleans, Duke of, 207
Othello (Shakespeare), 73, 76, 91
Otway, Thomas, 15, 76, 94, 108, 237n23
Oxberry, W., 41
Paine, Thomas, 27, 119, 122
paintings, 19, 70, 95, 103, 173, 1834, 191,
193, 207
Palmer, D. J., 57
Palmer, Robert, 75
pantomime, 2, 1718, 149, 209
dames, 174
Popes attack on, 1456
Parkhouse, Hannah (ne Richards), 6
Parkhouse, Philip, 6, 218n22
parliamentary debate, 158, see also Houses of
Parliament
parody, 1468, 170, 174
Parr, Francis, 59
Parsons, William, 109, 142
Pasquin, Anthony, 191
Patch, Thomas, 190
patent theatres, 1, 12, 26, 29, 38, 53, 163,
209, 236n13, see also Covent Garden;
Drury Lane
patriarchy, 39, 44, 52, 53, 73, 80, 92, 118,
135, 138, 172
patriotism, 6, 267, 42, 616, 112, 11617,
157, 158, 163, 165
Pearson, Jacqueline, 126, 135, 172
pedantry, 63, 126, 136, 139, 1412, 148,
1945
phallic rites, 189, 200
Phillips, Richard, 11, 27
philosophy, 19, 181, 182
Pilon, Frederick, 138
Pindar, Peter (aka John Wolcot), 14, 200,
256n97
Piozzi, Hester Thrale, 1011

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Napoleon, Emperor, 186
national identity, 26, 59, 61, 109, 145, 155,
157, 158, 164, 196
nationalism, 72
natural law, 1556
New Comedy, 36, 51
New Ladys Magazine, 156
New Theatre, Philadelphia, 136, 212
Newman, Gerald, 247n49
Nicoll, Allardyce, 13, 41, 229n100, 247n36
novelists, 22, 23, 55
novels, 18, 22, 71, 80, 81, 209
nudity, 1845, 188, 198200, 203, 206
Nussbaum, Felicity, 85, 234n87

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Pitt, Lady Harriot, 1467

Pitt, William, 110, 158
Pix, Mary, 11, 20, 21, 72, 152, 154
plagiarism, 9, 23, 41, 79, 188, 226n43
Plumptre, James, 187
Plutarch, 102, 111, 112
Pocket Magazine, 209
poetic justice, 15, 29, 73, 78
political corruption, 64, 65
Pomata, Gianna, 237n19
Pope, Alexander, 20, 1456
Pope, Elizabeth (ne Younge), 203
Portland, Dowager Duchess of, 190
Poussin, Nicolas, 70, 95, 184
Powell, James, 137
preludes, 17, 18, 128, 1301, 146
Price, Richard, 157, 176
Priestley, Joseph, 133, 135
promiscuity, 75, 86, 89, 92, 94, 196
prostitution, 25, 141
Protestantism, 163, 164
Prussia, 110, 119
psychology, 80, 81
Public Advertiser, 103, 149, 244n94
Public Characters, 25
public debates, 148, see also debating societies
public museums and galleries, 207
Pugachev rebellion (1773, 1774), 119
Purcell, Henry, 150

rhetoric, 30, 119, 121, 127, 129, 133, 1356,

172, see also the sublime
Rich, John, 145
Richard III (Shakespeare), 86, 96
Richardson, Samuel, 96
Richmond Theatre, Surrey, 212
Ritchie, Leslie, 169
Robinson, Mary (Perdita), 46
Rogers, Robert, 105
Rohilla War, 167
Roldan, Luisa, 185
role-playing, 467
Roman culture, 134, 145, 189
Romanticism, 70, 211
Rooker, Michael Angelo, 70
Rosa, Salvator, 70
Rossi, Properzia de, 185
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 114, 115
Rowe, Nicholas, 13, 15, 76, 85, 108
Rowlandson, Thomas, 190
Roworth, Wendy Wassyng, 188, 18990
Royal Academy of Arts, 3, 14, 19, 181, 184,
186, 189, 199, 200, 205, 208, 254n50
Royal family, 3, 9, 26, 1756, 179, see also
under individual members
Rubens, Peter Paul, 184
Russell, Gillian, 44, 45, 65, 122
Russia, 110, 119, 152, 158, 164, 167
Rymer, Thomas, 81
Rysbrack, John Michael, 198

quackery, 54
Quintillian, 133

sacred drama, 17
Sade, Marquis de, 96
Said, Edward, 156
St James Chronicle, 79
St James Review, 8
Samuel, Richard, 173
satire, 20, 389, 55, 58, 64
Savage, Richard, 192
scenery, 70, 151, 159, 162, 169
Scott, Sarah, 173, 201, 225n176
Scott, Sir Walter, 77
Scottish Enlightenment, 19
Scudry, Mlle de, 154
sculpture, 181213, 252n18
self-fashioning, 28, 183
self-parody, 30, 16971
semi-operas, 150

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racial stereotypes, 155, 156, 163

Racine, Jean, 102
Radcliffe, Ann, 71, 81, 234n99
Ranger, Paul, 77
Rapin, Ren, 15, 81
Reeve, Clara, 69
Reeve, William, 145
reform societies, 71
rehearsal process, 23
Reni, Guido, 184
Restoration drama, 14, 37, 41, 96
revenge tragedies, 70
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 19, 103, 182, 184, 188,
189, 254n50

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sensibility, 30, 37, 47, 60, 83, 88, 95, 105,

116, 124, 175
sentimental comedy, 1314, 16, 36
seraglio opera, 154, 156
Seward, Anna, 11, 33
sexual innuendo, 40
sexual jealousy, 74, 82, 8393, 96
sexual passion, 115
sexual slavery, 173
sexual virtue, 164
sexuality, 478, 50, 62
connoisseurship, 192
oriental, 1567, 164
repressed, 84, 91
Shadwell, Thomas, 192
Shaftesbury, A. A. C., third Earl of, 19
Shakespeare, William, 14, 36, 37, 137
heroes, 96
imagery, 121
mixing of comic and tragic, 78
tragedy, 15, 70, 734, 76, 99, 101, see also
under individual plays
Shaw, George Bernard, 147
she-tragedies, 13, 15, 70, 76, 99, 103, 108,
152, 172
Sheridan, Alicia, 146
Sheridan, Frances, 13, 36
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 9, 14, 20, 27, 103
mentorship, 79
The Rivals, 60, 63, 137, 146
The School for Scandal, 44, 45, 146
Sheridan, Thomas, 127, 1289, 132, 135
Sherry, Miss, 76
Showalter, Elaine, 126
Siddons, Henry, 106, 107
Siddons, Sarah, 3, 11, 15, 42, 83, 103, 106,
107, 123, 183, 186
siege drama, 103, 122, 152
The Siege of Belgrade (Cobb), 149, 1524,
159, 166, 179
siege operas, 146n22
slapstick comedy, 38, 137
slavery, 120, 152, 158, 163, 165, 1715
Smith, Adam, 133, 135, 174
Smith, Charlotte, 10, 40, 122, 234n99
Smollett, Tobias, 255n84
social class, 5661, 2078
social climbing, 45, 579, 178, 207

social equality, 2, 25, 177

Society of Antiquaries, 189, 192
Society of Dilettanti, 181, 189, 197, 254n50
Somersett, James, 171
Southerne, Thomas, 92, 102, 106, 171,
237n28
Southey, Robert, 211
Spain, 165
spectacle, 17, 24, 1512
Spence, Joseph, 185
Spencer, Jane, 25, 228n79
Spencer, Lord Henry and Lady Elizabeth,
143
standing armies, 110, 240n100
Stanton, Judith, 21, 136
Starke, Marianna, 171
Steele, Richard, 13, 192
Sterne, Laurence, 165
Stevens, George Alexander, 131
Stone, George Winchester, 13
Stone, Lawrence, 8
Storace, Stephen, 13, 152, 154
Stuart, Charles, 118
the sublime, 29, 73, 80, 81, 82, 83, 86, 90,
92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99
Swift, Jonathan, 192
Sypher, Wylie, 37

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The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare), 46

Terry, Ellen, 42, 212
Thale, Mary, 241n20
theatre managers, 23, 165, 208
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, see
Covent Garden
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane see Drury Lane
Theatre Royal, Haymarket see Haymarket
Theatre
Theophrastus, 58
Thomson, James, 15, 101, 102, 185, 187
Tickell, Mary, 227n62
Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare), 76
Tiverton, Devon, 6, 8, 12, 242n41
Tories, 102, 157, 158
trade and commerce, 64, 121, 155, 157
tragedy, 1, 13, 1415, 16, 1921, 24, 6999,
102, 152
travel writing, 70
treason, 104, 163

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Troost, Linda, 16
Trotter, Catherine, 11, 20, 21, 23, 72, 85
Turkey, 154, 167, 172
Turkish empire, 152, 156, 158
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), 28, 46
tyranny, 110, 11720, 165, 172
upper class, 57, 58, 5961, 178, 188, see also
bon ton society
Venus de Medici, 185
verbal wit, 556
Vickery, Amanda, 11314
Voltaire, 15, 20, 78, 80, 102
voyeurism, 195201
Walpole, Horace, 8, 15, 3940, 69, 71, 80,
127, 162, 1856, 190, 254n63
Walpole, Robert, 157
Walwyn, B., 37
Ward, Ned, 192
Warner, Marina, 246n28
wax models, 1878
West, Shearer, 57
Whigs, 27, 102, 110, 119, 157, 158
Whiteboys (Irish nationalist group), 134,
242n41
Whitehead, William, 13, 14, 102
Wilder, Thornton, 147
Wilkes, John, 157
Williams, Tennessee, 147

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Wilson, Kathleen, 6, 27, 61, 108, 133, 155,

163, 166
Wincklemann, J. J., 184
The Winters Tale (Shakespeare), 94
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 19, 30, 42, 72, 111,
122, 152, 155, 163, 238n60, 239n71
body of mind, 162, 174
on despotic monarchy, 119
on female citizenship, 112, 113, 115
on French Revolution, 176
on marriage, 44, 115
on over-polished femininity, 478
on patriarchal tyranny, 118
political pamphlets, 2
on slavery, 1723
Walpole on, 3940
womens rights, 2, 1723
Wood, Beavis, 12
World periodical, 10, 56, 110, 123
Wright, Joseph, 165
Wright, Patience, 187
Wycherley, William, 44, 54

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Yearsley, Ann, 72, 101, 233n58
York, Frederica, Duchess of, 1756, 179
York, George, Duke of, 175
Younge, Elizabeth (later Mrs Pope), 4, 33,
42, 43, 456, 47, 53, 203
Zonana, Joyce, 172