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                      THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY

                                 _THE_
                           HARLOT'S PROGRESS

                           THEOPHILUS CIBBER
                                (_1733_)

                                 _and_

                                 _THE_
                            RAKE'S PROGRESS

                         (_MS., Ca. 1778-1780_)


                           _Introduction by_
                            MARY F. KLINGER


                        PUBLICATION NUMBER _181_
                 WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
                 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
                                 _1977_




        GENERAL EDITORS
    William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles
    Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles
    David Stuart Rodes, University of California, Los Angeles


        ADVISORY EDITORS
    James L. Clifford, Columbia University
    Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia
    Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles
    Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
    Louis A. Landa, Princeton University
    Earl Miner, Princeton University
    Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
    Everett T. Moore, University of California, Los Angeles
    Lawrence Clark Powell, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    James Sutherland, University College, London
    H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles
    Robert Vosper, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library


        CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
    Beverly J. Onley, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library


        EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
    Frances M. Reed, University of California, Los Angeles




                              INTRODUCTION


The prints and engraved sequences of William Hogarth (1697-1764)
inspired a wide range of dramatic entertainments throughout the
eighteenth century. The types include comedy of manners (_The
Clandestine Marriage_, 1766), burletta with _tableau vivant_ (_Ut
Pictura Poesis!_ 1789), specialty act (_A Modern Midnight Conversation_,
1742), cantata (_The Roast Beef of Old England_, ca. 1759), ballad opera
(_The Decoy_),[1] pantomime (_The Jew Decoy'd_ and _The Harlot's
Progress_, 1733), and a morality ballad opera (_The Rake's Progress_,
ca. 1778-1780). Two of these are reprinted here. Theophilus Cibber's
"Grotesque Pantomime Entertainment" of Hogarth's six-scene series "A
Har