The Basset-Table (Annotated)
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The Basset-Table (1705) is a sharply constructed comedy of manners that turns the fashionable card game of basset into a theatrical emblem of risk, appetite, and social performance. Around Lady Reveller's gaming circle, Centlivre arranges plots of courtship, deception, and economic calculation, while Valeria's scientific curiosity offers a striking counter-image to the idle "woman of pleasure." Wr...
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The Basset-Table (1705) is a sharply constructed comedy of manners that turns the fashionable card game of basset into a theatrical emblem of risk, appetite, and social performance. Around Lady Reveller's gaming circle, Centlivre arranges plots of courtship, deception, and economic calculation, while Valeria's scientific curiosity offers a striking counter-image to the idle "woman of pleasure." Wr...
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