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Benjamin Hoadly

 

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Benjamin Hoadly : Suspicious Husband, The

'Dulness is not confined to them [Bishops], it descends to their Sons, witness our celebrated Comedy, [italics] The Suspicious Husband [end italics], which, but for its neither having one Character well drawn, any Plot, any thing like a Sentiment, and wrote too in a gallimawfry Stile, might be a good Performance; but as long as it is stamped with a Name, it passes current, though Sterling Nonsense.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Unknown

 

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