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In the first half of the eighteenth century; a new comic plot formula dramatizing the moral reform of a flawed protagonist emerged on the English stage. The comic reform plot was not merely a generic turn towards morality or sentimentality; Aparna Gollapudi argues; but an important social mechanism for controlling and challenging political and economic changes. Gollapudi looks at reform comedies by dramatists such as Colley Cibber; Susanna Centlivre; Richard Steele; Charles Johnson; and Benjamin Hoadly in relation to emergent trends in finance capitalism; imperial nationalism; political factionalism; domestic ideology; and middling class-consciousness. Within the context of the cultural anxieties engendered by these developments; Gollapudi suggests; the reform comedies must be seen not as clicheacute;d and moralistic productions but as responses to vital ideological shifts and cultural transvaluations that impose a reassuring moral schema on everyday conduct. Thoroughly researched and elegantly written; Gollapudis study shows that reform comedies covered a range of contemporary concerns from party politics to domestic harmony and are crucial for understanding eighteenth-century literature and culture.