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''Love's Last Shift, or The Fool in Fashion'' is an English Restoration comedy by Colley Cibber from 1696. The play is regarded as an early herald of a shift in audience tastes away from the intellectualism and sexual frankness of Restoration comedy and towards the conservative certainties and gender role backlash of sentimental comedy. It is often described as "opportunistic" (Hume), containing as it does something for everybody: daring Restoration comedy sex scenes, sentimental reconciliations, and broad farce. ==Character list== MEN〔Cibber, Colley. Love's last shift: or, the fool in fashion. A comedy, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, by Their Majesties servants. Written by C. Cibber. London, 1735. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale. University of Delaware Library. 27 Sept. 2009 * Sir William Wisewoud, a rich old gentleman that fancies himself a great master of his passion, which he only is in trivial matters * Loveless, of a debauced life, grew weary of his wife in six months; left her, and the Town, for debts he did not care to pay; and having spent the last part of his estate beyond sea, returns to England in a very mean state. * Sir Novelty Fashion, a coxcomb that loves to be the first in all foppery * Elder Worthy, a sober gentleman of a fair estate in love with Hillaria * Young Worthy, his brother, of a looser temper, lover to Narcissa * Snap, servant to Loveless * Sly, servant to Young Worthy * A lawyer WOMEN. * Amanda, a woman of strict virtue, married to Loveless very young and forsaken by him * Narcissa, daughter to Sir William Wisewoud, a fortune * Hillaria, his niece * Flareit, a kept mistress of Sir Novelty's * Woman to Amanda * Maid to Flareit Colley Cibber played Sir Novelty Fashion in the original 1688 production. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Love's Last Shift」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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