. Ireland in London. hey are pure. His bestchaiacters are finely portrayed, the situationshighly diverting and dramatic, and the dialogueof great force and cleverness, and bristling with, good points. It is clear, from passages in TheRape of the Lock and others of his works, thatPope studied his Farquhar. The most celebratedfemale playwright of the century, or indeed of•any century, was Mrs. Centlivre, who was bornAbout 1667, and who, before she died in 1723,married three husbands, the last of whom gave herthe name by which she is known to fame. Shewrote 19 plays, and of these three are of the
. Ireland in London. hey are pure. His bestchaiacters are finely portrayed, the situationshighly diverting and dramatic, and the dialogueof great force and cleverness, and bristling with, good points. It is clear, from passages in TheRape of the Lock and others of his works, thatPope studied his Farquhar. The most celebratedfemale playwright of the century, or indeed of•any century, was Mrs. Centlivre, who was bornAbout 1667, and who, before she died in 1723,married three husbands, the last of whom gave herthe name by which she is known to fame. Shewrote 19 plays, and of these three are of thehighest excellence. One of the chaiacters inher Busybody (the first play printed under thename of Centlivre, the others having been signedS. Carroll, from her second husbands name), isa masterly specimen of her powers of delineatingcharacter. Marplot is the busybody of the play,and a most amusing peisonage. It is, and haskeen, one of the most favourite parts of many,gr«at comedy actors. Her first piece came out in. SPRANGER BARKT. works were collected*-some of the best of 1700 at Drury Lane, at which theatre most of herplays were first performed, as Farquhars hadbeen at Covent Garden. Her second best comedyis probably The Wonder; or, A Woman Keeps aSecret (1714), the scene of which is Spain, theland of intrigue. It is a very bustling and amus-ing piece, but not free from the taint of the clever characteri-sation and ambiguouswit made it a greatfavourite, both withactors and her Bold Strokefor a Wife is herbest-known comedy,and ranks very highamong the comedies ofthe 18th century. Itwas produced in 171S,and she claims for itabsolute originality—aclaim which, thoughnot Btrictly accurate,must be allowed. Herin three volumes, andthem [were translated into various languages.;One character in the last-mentioned comedy,Simon Pure, from the confusion that arises about!him, has given a phrase to the English language I—the real Simon Pure. Before leaving the d
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