Satire on contemporary theatre supporting Henry Fielding's satirical play "Pasquin. A Dramatick Satire on the Times .... viz. A Comedy call'd The Election; And a Tragedy call'd, The Life and Death of Common-Sense". A stage with, in the centre, the crowned figure of "the Queen of Common Sense" pours coins from a bag towards Fielding who kneels, to the left, offering her a paper lettered "Pasquin"; an actor and actress stand behind him, and, in front, Shakespeare is seated at a desk at which he is writing Hamlet while the ghost, in full armour, and cock appear from a trapdoor at his feet. On the right, stands Harlequin, catching a rope thrown by the Queen, Pierrot, a tumbler standing on his hands, and three gentlemen representing Church, Law, and Medicine as satirised in "Pasquin". Thirteen lines of verse beneath.   1736
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1736<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1736-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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