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(2000: 14).'7 Yet, before he produced the carica ture of Shad well in Sir Bom oby Whigg, he had already singled ou l this poel among more prominen l Whigs in the sa tire Tite Progress o" HOllesly (1681), and would do so again in ScO/ulohm/ Mogllolllm; Or, Pot0l'ski's Cose (16fb), in which polirical
portends fulure successes, though sorne fat Whiggs of Sir Bamaby's tríbe made all the interest they could lo cry it clown. By introducing the caricature in the play, Durfey also capita lizes on the scanda l provo ked by Shadwe ll's The Lancashin: Witclles, slaged only a couple of mon ths before.' He cerlainly makes th e con necrion betw een hoth plays clear: Sir Rarnilht s family is associated with Lancashi re - his nephew, Sir Walter, is described in the Drnmmis perso1lal? as "an Opinionated Fool and Cuckold : A Lancashi re-Knigh t." If Shadwell used his play lo defend Whig ideals and a ttacked both the Anglican Church (in lhe character of the cha plain Sm irk), and Ihe Ca tholic (in Teague o'Divelly, the Irish pri est), Durfey ridicules his rival's s tance 1110 St effective ly as he makes Sir Barna by recant on stage, 111e scene in which the actor impersona Ling Shadwell appears d ressed as -81, that ts, from autumn 16& to sununer 1681; seeOwen 1
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