In Henry Fielding’s novel, there was no difference between the great men in high life and those in low life.
Greatness vs. Goodness in Henry Fielding’s “Jonathan Wild” (1743)
King Arthur; or, The British Worthy (1691) by John Dryden, with Musick by Henry Purcell
The ‘long eighteenth century’ (c.1688-c.1837) is not a period that people usually associate with medievalism…but the subject of this post is the play “King Arthur, or the British Worthy” (1691) by John Dryden and Henry Purcell.