City Politiques

City Politiques is a 1683 comedy play by the English writer John Crowne.

It was first performed by the United Company at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane by the recently formed United Company.

[1] It came at the time of the Tory Reaction to the earlier Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis, and was of numerous plays of the time that ridiculed the Whig party.

[2] It is set during the 1610s in the southern Italian city of Naples, then under Spanish rule.

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