"LUCK BE A LADY TONIGHT," OR AT LEAST MAKE ME A GENTLEMAN: ECONOMIC ANXIETY IN CENTLIVRE'S THE GAMESTER.

Studies in the Literary Imagination | September 22, 1999| | Copyright

John Dennis, in a 1704 response to yet another of Jeremy Collier's attacks on the immorality of the stage, criticizes Collier for neglecting to discuss what he sees as a more tangible and therefore more serious vice:

 
   But how does [Collier] propose to himself, to bring [reform] about? Why, 
   not by suppressing Vice, but the Stage that Scourges and exposes it. For he 
   meddles not with that Vice that is in the World, let it be never so flaming 
   and outragious. For example, the crying Sin of England next to Hypocrisie, 
   at this time is Gaming; a Sin that is ...

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