Augustan prose
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Augustan prose is somewhat ill-defined, as "Augustan" refers primarily to a shift in taste regarding poetry in particular. However, the general time represented by Augustan literature also saw a rise
Rowlandson's caricature "Mad Dog in a Coffee-House," showing "stock jobbers" in a panic as they are terrorized by a rabid animal.
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Title page to the 1705 edition of Bernard de Mandeville's Fable of the Bees.
Charcoal sketch of Adam Smith.
Augustan drama
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Augustan drama can refer to the dramas of Ancient Rome during the reign of Caesar Augustus, but it most commonly refers to the plays of Great Britain in the early 18th century, a subset of 18th-centur
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"Rich's Glory": John Rich takes control of Covent Garden Theatre in 1732. The first play he would stage was The Way of the World.
An 1875 postcard from the Victoria and Albert Hall showing the Duke's Company theatre in Dorset Gardens (the so-called "machine house") in operation from 1671 to 1709, which began as a playhouse and gradually became a house for spectacle.
Frontispiece to Fielding's Tom Thumb, a play satirizing plays (and Robert Walpole)
David Garrick, a celebrity actor, starring as King Richard III in Colley Cibber's revision of Shakespeare's play six years after the Licensing Act 1737.