SOURCE: “Colley Cibber's ‘Genteel Comedy’: Love's Last Shift and The Careless Husband,” in Studia Neophilologica, Vol. 54, No. 1, 1982, pp. 61-79.
In the following essay, Drougge charges that although Cibber presents his plays as realism, they are actually sentimentalism: “wishfulfilment fantasies offered as instruction, unreal behaviour offered as psychology, submissive eloquence offered as logic.”
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