The Conscious Lovers is a sentimental comedy written in five acts by the Irish author Richard Steele. The Conscious Lovers appeared on stage on 7 November...
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Sentimental comedy (section Elements of the genre)
Steele's The Conscious Lovers (1722), in which the penniless heroine Indiana faces various tests until the discovery that she is an heiress leads to the necessary...
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of laughing comedy over the sentimental comedy seen as dominant on the English stage since the success of The Conscious Lovers, written by Sir Richard...
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Richard Steele (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
sentimental comedy The Conscious Lovers, which was an immediate hit. However, he fell out with Addison and with the administration over the Peerage Bill (1719)...
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1722 in literature (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
Pitcairne – The Assembly, or Scotch Reformation Richard Steele – The Conscious Lovers James Sterling – The Rival Generals John Sturmy – The Compromise...
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Transmediality (section History of the term)
g. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson), drama (e.g. The Conscious Lovers by Richard Steele), painting (e.g. Le Fils Ingrat by Jean-Baptiste...
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Augustan literature (redirect from Literature of the Georgian era)
repentance. Steele's The Conscious Lovers (1722) hinges upon his young hero avoiding fighting a duel. The plays set up a new set of values for the stage. Instead...
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with The Conscious Lovers, a new theatre at Edinburgh, the Theatre Royal. He had succeeded, in spite of innumerable difficulties, in raising the building...
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similar to the change in comedy made by Richard Steele's The Conscious Lovers, a play that refined sensibility in comedy and depicted the middle class...
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