Quid pro quo, or, the day of dupes : the prize comedy : in five acts : as first performed at the Theatre Royal, Hay-Market : on Tuesday, June 18, 1844 / Catherine Gore.
Publication Info.
London : Pub. at the National Acting Drama Office ... , [1844]
Selected from ninety-seven competitors, for a prize of £500 offered by the manager of the Haymarket Theatre for a new and original English comedy.
Original document: Book.
Summary
Like many of Catherine Gore's other works,ℓQuid Pro Quo; Or, the Day of the Dupesℓspeaks of the upper class, their desires of money and power and their unwillingness to work to attain more of it. The comedy focuses on howℓthe aristocratsℓhave to fraternize with the lower classes to maintain power structures, thus blurring the lines of social inequality.