T C 357: Comedy, Ancient and Modern

Susannah Centlivre

I. Great Britain, 1700-1718

• Tories and Whigs
• The Succession Question
  Queen Anne (died 1714)
  James Stuart, "The Old Pretender"
  George I
• Mercantilism
  The British East India Company
• Quakers
  William Penn

II. Eighteenth-Century British Theatre
Jeremy Collier,
A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage

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