[1] It was published that same year with an indignant subtitle and went into a second edition:[2] With an address to the public, upon the arbitrary and unjust aspersion of the licenser against its political sentiments.
Wallace's upturning of the social hierarchy may have prompted the ban, given political sensitivities during the period that saw both the American and the French revolutions.
During the Feast of Saturnalia, Lord Crotchett temporarily forfeits his position as master of his estate and takes on the role of a servant.
The play follows events as they unfold and culminate in a marriage between Maria, the head maid, and Caesar, a disguised noble.
While Lord Crotchett does not consent to the marriage initially, he ultimately permits and even condones it as he does not have the power to deny Fag or Nell within the up-side-down social structure of the Feast.