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Genteel comedy is the comedy of fashionable life , and of artificial character and manners . The most pungent ridicule , is that which is directed to mortify vanity , and to expose affectation ; but vanity and affectation , in their ...
Genteel comedy is the comedy of fashionable life , and of artificial character and manners . The most pungent ridicule , is that which is directed to mortify vanity , and to expose affectation ; but vanity and affectation , in their ...
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It is not the criticism which the public taste exercises upon the stage , but the criticism which the stage exercises upon public manners , that is fatal to comedy , by rendering the subject - matter of it tame , correct , and ...
It is not the criticism which the public taste exercises upon the stage , but the criticism which the stage exercises upon public manners , that is fatal to comedy , by rendering the subject - matter of it tame , correct , and ...
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able comedies was a direct transcript of the manners of the court at the time , or in the period immediately preceding , yet the same gross- ness of expression and allusion existed long before , as in the plays of Shakspeare and Ben ...
able comedies was a direct transcript of the manners of the court at the time , or in the period immediately preceding , yet the same gross- ness of expression and allusion existed long before , as in the plays of Shakspeare and Ben ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2009 |
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