Love's Last Shift
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Love's Last Shift, or The Fool in Fashion is an English Restoration comedy by Colley Cibber from 1696. The play is regarded as an early herald of a shift in audience tastes away from the intellectuali
Colley Cibber depicted in the role of Lord Foppington in John Vanbrugh's The Relapse, the sequel to Love's Last Shift
Fop
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Fop was a pejorative term for a man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are: coxcomb, fribble, popinjay, dandy, fa
Love's Last Shift
…impressed by her faithfulness that he immediately becomes a reformed character. A minor part which was a great success with the première audience is the fop Sir Novelty Fashion, written by Cibber for himself to play. Sir Novelty flirts with all the women, but is more interested in his own exquisite appearance…
A foppish medical student smoking a cigarette, denoting a cavalier attitude
The Upper Crust, October 2007, in New York City