Word: cartwright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Snap's custom to invite to his home as heavily paying guests the more affluent and well-favored of the criminals in his charge. Thus, when the play begins, the company includes the paunchy rascal Jonathan Wild, a decadent nobleman calling himself Count La Ruse, and one Cartwright, a callow poet incarcerated for debt...
...poet learns some of the less poetical things about women when La Ruse's carnality triumphs over his own romanticizing. But even La Ruse feels it necessary to escape the unhealthy witchery of Laetitia, which he does by suicide; not, however, before he has affectionately given young Cartwright enough money to pay his debts. Meanwhile Jonathan Wild is taken out and hanged, and an elegant, periwigged Lord, the poisoner of his wife and most of his relatives, arrives to placate Laetitia...