Comic character in Restoration drama

Addleplot amused Angelica Arnolphe artificial characters Bayes Belfond Senior believes Bergson caricatures Castelvetro Cockwood comic character Complete Plays Congreve Congreve's Country Wife coxcomb cuckold Dapperwit disguise Double Dealer drama Dryden dunces Edith Hamilton Emilia Etherege Etherege's Fainall Farquhar fashionable folly French Further references gallant George Farquhar given in text Henri Bergson Hippolita Horner humor Humorists husband hypocrites Ibid ignorance intrigue John John Dryden jokes knowledge lack Lady Fidget Lady Wishfort laugh laughter Lord Froth Love for Love marry Mirabell Molière Molière's Monsieur Montague Summers nature never Ninny Olivia page-numbers partially aware person personages Pinchwife Plain Dealer playwrights plot poet pretends remarks Restoration comedy ridiculous rogues Shadwell's Shakespeare Sir Martin Mar-all Sir Positive Sir Sampson Sparkish Stanford Tartuffe Tattle tells theories Thomas Shadwell traits unaware University Press victims Vizard Warner Widow William Congreve William Wycherly Witwoud woman women Woodcock Wycherly Wycherly's York young