The author of Love's Last Shift and The Provok'd Husband and creator of the character Sir Novelty Fashion, for 10 points, name this English dramatist who wrote An Apology for his life and replaced Lewis Theobald as the target of Alexander Pope's The Dunciad.
This man acknowledged his failure to counteract the sympathetic portrayal of the outlaws in Gay's The Beggar's Opera with his comedy of virtue Love in a Riddle, and this man portrayed Cardinal Pandulph in his Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John. His nonfiction works include The Character and Conduct of Cicero and A Rhapsody upon the Marvellous, and John Vanbrugh wrote The Relapse as a sequel to one of this man's works. That work describes the return of the debauchee Loveless to the faithful Amanda, and in another of his works, the Headpiece family is corrupted by London. The author of Love's Last Shift and The Provok'd Husband and creator of the character Sir Novelty Fashion, for 10 points, name this English dramatist who wrote An Apology for his life and replaced Lewis Theobald as the target of Alexander Pope's The Dunciad.
This man acknowledged his failure to counteract the sympathetic portrayal of the outlaws in Gay's The Beggar's Opera with his comedy of virtue Love in a Riddle, and this man portrayed Cardinal Pandulph in his Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John.
Colly Cibber