Early in IV.i, Dorimant, as Mr. Courtage, mockingly laments the loss of "forms and ceremonies, the only things that uphold quality and greatness" (133). Is he just leading Lady Woodvill on? Or could the play be theorizing the truth of a larger social issue?
After being chastised by Dorimant, the Shoemaker says something interesting; "You would engross the sins o' the nation" (I.i. p.96). Is he pointing out something like a trend of appropriation by dispossession? Or are the Shoemaker's lines indicative of a call for the end of an aristocratic moral hypocrisy?
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