John Dennis
Standard Name: Dennis, John
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| Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Haywood | The Unequal Conflict opens on an examination of the workings of passion: the penalties exacted from those giving way to it, the fact that those who have never felt it cannot judge of it. The... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Delarivier Manley | DM
said she got her idea for this second oriental drama from the recent Arabian Nights Entertainment (whose publication had begun in 1704) and from John Dennis
. Her tyrant sultan, Almanzor, is characterised by... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | George Henry Lewes | He accepted the job on condition of having a sub-editor to help. John Dennis
was appointed. (Lewes was carrying out consulting work for other periodicals at the same time.) The Fortnightly Review aimed to be... |
| Textual Features | Eliza Haywood | This work adopts the voice of a man calling himself J. B., who decries his own abilities at narrative or character-drawing, but enters with enthusiasm into the business of spying on sexual misbehaviour, until he... |
| Textual Production | Frances Brooke | FB
's Virginia a Tragedy, with Odes, Pastorals, and Translations appeared in print. David Garrick
and John Rich
had rejected this tragedy for the stage. The play had been in competition with one of the... |
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