Irregular Theater, the Discourse of Farce, and Hogarth’s Line of Deformity

2007 ASECS, Atlanta GA “‘To Exhibit a Dumb Shew’: Hogarth and the Theater” Handouts “Irregular Theater, the Discourse of Farce, and Hogarth’s Line of Deformity” During the first half of the eighteenth century, a brand of so-called “irregular” theatrical entertainment—popular, not always licensed or legitimate, both “English” and “foreign”—made its problematic way into the public …