... William Semmens Richard Walls Peter 12 “Pursue thy conquest Love ” antimasque s chaconne Sabol Andrew Savage Roger Tenbury manuscript Libretto Playtext Vocal ranges Prologue Chorus Dance Measure for Measure The Loves of Mars and Venus Charles Gildon a comparison of the texts...

... steady and continuous. When it first appeared in 1719, Defoe’s masterpiece, Robinson Crusoe, was attacked viciously by Charles Gildon, as a vulgarisation of art and life, and toward the end of the 18th century he was accused of having plagiarised his work from the Scottish seaman...

..., Robinson Crusoe has appeared as an economic parable, a spiritual autobiography, an adventure story, and a fable illustrating human development and education. The problem of interpretation arose almost immediately with Charles Gildon’s forceful critical assault on the work, The Life...

...The success of Robinson Crusoe did not appear to change Daniel Defoe’s reputation very much with his fellow authors. Prose fiction was not yet a respectable genre, and Charles Gildon had already expressed his contempt for Robinson Crusoe. Defoe’s eventual shift...