Brian Gibbons argues that the play "offers the comedy of manners in its most concentrated form".[2] John Dryden used similar themes in his 1678 work Mr. Limberham; or, the Kind Keeper, but far less successfully; the play was only performed three times and has been described as his 'most abject failure.'[3]
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