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INDEX

Addison, Joseph, 109, 111

   Cato, 54

   Freeholder, 118

   Spectator, 111, 118, 130

Aeschylus, 50–2, 55, 62

Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of, 117

Alexander the Great, 68, 69, 70, 180

Allen, Ralph, 11, 54, 83, 93

Alter, Robert, 188, 189

Amis, Kingsley, 175

Amory, Hugh, 48, 78, 98, 107

Andrew, Sarah, 5

Anne, Queen, 3

Arbuthnot, John, 163

Aristophanes, 5, 17

Aristotle, 52, 93

Auden, W. H., 67

Austen, Jane, 26, 37, 105, 174, 175, 178, 179, 180, 187

   Northanger Abbey, 178

   Pride and Prejudice, 168


Bakhtin, M. M., 181, 188

Banier, Antoine (Abbé)

   Mythology and Fables of the Ancients Explain’d, 117

Barth, John, 175, 182, 183, 187, 189

Battestin, Martin C., 93, 106, 120

Battestin, Martin C. and Ruthe R., 78, 110, 120, 121, 135

Beattie, J. M., 151

Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 12–13, 116

Behn, Aphra, 129, 131

Bender, John, 76, 78, 79, 107

Bertelsen, Lance, 98, 107, 151

Black Act, 86, 143

Black Boy Alley gang, 141

Blanchard, Frederic T., 107, 188

Blandy, Mary, 119, 143–4

Bolingbroke, Henry St John, Viscount, 114

Booth, Barton, 22

Boswell, James

   Life of Johnson, 92, 134, 188

Bow Street, 146

Bradbury, Malcolm, 175

Bradshaigh, Dorothy, Lady, 49, 56, 107, 173

Brecht, Bertolt, 175

   Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, 180

   Threepenny Novel, 166, 180

Bree, Linda, 108

Brewer, John, 15, 121

Bridewell, 143, 173

Brogden, Joshua, 13

Broich, Ulrich, 48

Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 153

   Rehearsal, 33, 114–15, 118

Burney, Frances, 26, 175, 179, 187

Bute, Lady, 15, 16, 151

Butler, Samuel

   Hudibras, 132

Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 175


Campbell, Jill, 101, 107, 124, 134

Canning, Elizabeth, 149–50

Carey, Henry, 23, 34, 36, 37

Carnochan, W. B., 123, 134

Castle, Terry, 96, 106

Cervantes, Miguel de, 55, 58, 59, 66, 129, 188

   Don Quixote, 131, 132, 176

Chaplin, Charles

   Great Dictator, 180

Charke, Charlotte, 125, 127–8, 133, 135

   Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Charke, 128, 135

Charles XII, King of Sweden, 11

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 57

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of, 111, 114, 116

Chetwood, 129

Cibber, Colley, 7, 22, 23, 25, 29, 31, 35, 39, 111, 112, 127, 128

   Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber, 37, 111, 128

   Provok’d Husband, 23

Cibber, Theophilus, 31, 32, 34, 127, 128

   Apology for the Life of Theophilus Cibber, 135

Cicero, 63

Claudian

   In Rufinum, 99

Cleland, John, 96, 106

   Memoirs of a Coxcomb, 174

   Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 96, 170, 174

Clery, Emma, 124, 135

Clive, Catherine, 8, 20, 40, 47, 125, 126–7, 128, 133

Cobham, Richard Temple, Viscount, 114

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 123, 134

Coley, W. B., 16, 121, 189

Collier, Jeremy, 54

Collier, Margaret, 5, 14, 122, 123

Comedian (periodical), 110

Common Sense, 110, 111, 120

Congreve, William, 7, 22, 23, 24, 26, 31

Cooke, Thomas (‘Scriblerus Tertius’), 15, 26

Coover, Robert

   Public Burning, 175, 180

Corbett, Charles, 113

Cotton, Charles

   Scarronides: or, Virgil Travestie, 100

Covent Garden, 7, 33, 35

Coventry, Francis

   History of Pompey the Little, 131

Craftsman, 110, 111

Curll, Edmund, 129, 144


Daily Advertiser, 113

Davidson, Jenny, 79

de Veil, Sir Thomas, 13, 141

Defoe, Daniel, 5, 15, 51, 54, 55, 58, 59, 63, 65, 67, 165

   Moll Flanders, 170

   Robinson Crusoe, 22, 59

   True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild, 65–6, 77, 78

Dickens, Charles, 1, 166, 175, 181, 187, 188

   Bleak House, 146, 184, 185

   David Copperfield, 77, 181, 184

   Hard Times, 184

   Great Expectations, 181–2, 184, 185

   Little Dorrit, 185

   Martin Chuzzlewit, 184

   Nicholas Nickleby, 184

   Oliver Twist, 184, 185

Dodington, George Bubb, 114, 116

Donnellan, Anne, 104, 106, 107

Drake, George A., 93

Drury Lane, 7, 18, 19, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 71, 74, 126, 127, 142, 146

Drury-Lane Journal, 96, 107

   ‘Shamelia’, 96

Dryden, John, 7, 19, 27, 33, 154

   Absalom and Achitophel, 153, 154

   All for Love, 28

D’Urfey, Tom, 19, 24


Eaves, T. C. Duncan, 107

Elwood, J. R., 129, 136

Empson, William, 80, 92

Engels, Friedrich, 186

Erasmus, Desiderius, 66

Eton, 1, 4–5, 12

Euripides, 52


Fall of Mortimer (by William Hatchett?), 28, 37

Fawlty Towers, 86

Fielding, Anne (sister), 3

Fielding, Beatrice (sister), 3

Fielding, Catherine (sister), 3

Fielding, Charlotte (daughter), 9, 12, 134

Fielding, Charlotte (Cradock) (first wife), 9, 11–12, 95, 133–4

Fielding, Edmund (brother), 3, 9

Fielding, Edmund (father), 3, 4, 5–6, 9

Fielding, Harriot (daughter), 12, 122

Fielding, Henry

   birth, 1, 3

   death, 15

   Eton, 4–5

   Great Mogul’s Company of Comedians, 10, 34

   Justice of the Peace for Westminster and Middlesex, 2, 13–14, 116–19

   legal career, 10–11, 12, and chapter 2 passim

   Leiden, University of, 7, 23

   Scriblerus Secundus, H., 2, 8, 24, 27, 28, 29, 34, 163

   Universal Register Office, 14, 96, 98, 118

   Works:

   Amelia, 2, 8, 14, 15, 29, 94–108, 119, 120, 124, 125, 126, 133, 135, 142, 150–1, 153–9, 161, 166, 167–72, 183, 185, 186

   An Old Man Taught Wisdom, 32

   Author’s Farce, 8, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 33, 34, 36, 52, 126, 129

      ‘Pleasures of the Town’, 25

   Case of Bosavern Penlez, 144–6

   Champion, 2, 11, 35, 109, 110–14, 117, 118, 120, 135, 171

   Charge to the Grand Jury, 144

   Clear State of the Case of Elizabeth Canning, 149–50

   Coffee-House Politician, 36

   Coronation, A Poem, and an Ode on the Birthday, The, 6

   Covent-Garden Journal, 2, 14, 16, 97–8, 99, 107, 110, 118, 130, 131, 136, 173, 174, 179

   Covent-Garden Tragedy, 139

   Deborah: or a Wife for You All, 126

   Don Quixote in England, 9, 23, 30, 32

   Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, 2, 13, 76, 78, 99, 119, 143, 144, 146–9, 172, 173

   ‘Epistle to Mr Lyttleton’, 126

   Essay on Conversation, 163, 174

   Eurydice, 33

   Eurydice Hiss’d, 10, 20, 33, 34, 36, 128

   Examples of the Interposition of Providence in the Detection and Punishment of Murder, 99, 143–4

   Fathers; or, The Good-Natured Man, 24

   Female Husband, 124, 127

   Grub-Street Opera, 9, 10, 28, 30

   Historical Register, 10, 18, 33, 34, 35, 36, 128

   History of Our Own Times, 110, 113

   Intriguing Chambermaid, 126, 135

   Jacobite’s Journal, 12, 110, 116, 118, 119, 173

   Jonathan Wild, 65–79, 95, 97, 100, 106, 113, 120, 137, 150, 153, 155–6, 166, 176, 178, 179, 186

   Joseph Andrews, 2, 11, 15, 18, 21, 22, 30, 36, 37, 38, 47, 48, 50, 67, 93, 95, 100, 104, 106, 114, 119, 122, 132, 150, 155, 157–60, 163, 166, 167, 178, 184

      ‘Preface’, 51–2, 78, 129, 163, 164–5, 176, 177, 178, 181

   Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, 15, 16, 98, 99, 106, 122, 162, 163–4, 169, 173

   Journey from this World to the Next, 132, 171

   Letter to Richardson, 105, 174

   Letter-Writers, 28, 36

   Lottery, 20, 30, 31

   Love in Several Masques, 7, 21, 23, 36, 125

   Masquerade, 21

   Miscellanies, 11, 15, 16, 21, 22, 53, 78

   Miss Lucy in Town, 11, 20, 36, 171

   Miser (Molière, L’Avare), 8, 29, 30, 47, 126

   Mock-Doctor (Molière, Le Médecin malgré lui), 8, 29

   Modern Husband, 10, 23, 29, 30

   ‘Of the Remedy of Affliction for the Loss of our Friends’, 134

   Old Debauchees, 30, 47

   ‘On the Knowledge of the Characters of Men’, 53

   Opposition: A Vision, The, 12, 113

   Pasquin, 10, 18, 24, 33, 34, 37, 128, 135

   Plan of the Universal Register-Office, 143

   Preface to Sarah Fielding’s Adventures of David Simple, 136

   Proposal for making an Effectual Provision for the Poor, 2, 13, 99, 148

   ‘Roast Beef of Old England’, see Grub-Street Opera, Don Quixote in England

   Shamela, 2, 11, 38–49, 55–6, 67, 77, 95, 100, 122, 123, 161, 176

   Temple Beau, 8, 23, 36

   Tom Jones, 15, 18, 31, 38, 47, 48, 62, 67, 70, 80–93, 95, 98, 99, 100, 102, 106, 109, 116, 120, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 130, 133, 137, 151, 155, 160–9, 171, 177–8, 179, 181, 183, 184–5, 186

   Tom Thumb, 8, 26, 27, 30, 31, 36, 37, 124, 155

   Tragedy of Tragedies, 8, 26, 27, 28, 36, 37, 39, 115, 128

   True Patriot, 12, 110, 114

   Tumble-down Dick, 25, 33, 34, 37

   Universal Gallant, 23–4, 32

   Virgin Unmask’d, 47

   Wedding-Day, 23, 36

   Welsh Opera, 28, 29, 31

Fielding, Henry (son), 12, 14

Fielding, Sir John (half-brother), 13, 14, 96, 118

Fielding, Mary Daniel (second wife), 12, 14, 122, 164

Fielding, Sarah (mother), 3

Fielding, Sarah (sister), 3, 12, 125, 131, 133

   Adventures of David Simple, 12, 132–3, 136

      Henry Fielding’s Preface, 136

   Cry, The, 5

   Familiar Letters Between the Characters of ‘David Simple’ and Others, 12, 132, 135, 136

   History of the Countess of Dellwyn, 106

Fielding, Ursula (sister), 3

Flaubert, Gustave, 161

Fleetwood, Charles, manager of Drury Lane, 34, 127

Fog’s Journal, 110, 111

Ford, Ford Madox, 161, 173

Fowles, John, 175


Garrick, David, 11

Garson, Barbara

   MacBird, 180

Gaskell, Elizabeth, 186

Gay, John, 8, 22, 23, 24, 163

   Beggar’s Opera, 7, 23, 24, 35, 74–5, 78, 155, 170, 180

   Polly, 35

Gazetteer, 113, 114

General Advertiser, 36, 94

George I, 3

George II, 6, 7

Gide, André, 175, 182, 184, 187

gin, 140–1, 147

   Gin Act, 142, 147

Gissing, George, 166

Glastonbury Waters, 98

Godwin, William, 184

Gogol, Nikolai, 175, 177

Golden Rump, The, 10, 35

Goldgar, Bertrand A., 121

Goldsmith, Oliver, 109

Gombrowicz, Witold, 175, 180–1

Gonson, Sir John, 144

Good Samaritan, 53

Goodman’s Fields, 8, 23

Gould, Lady, 3, 4, 5, 9

Gould, Sir Henry, 3, 4, 5

Granville, John Carteret, Earl, 115

Gray, Thomas, 50

Gray’s Inn Journal, 110

Grub-Street Journal, 29, 30, 34, 109


Hamilton, Mary, 127

Handel, George Frideric, 7, 30

Hardwicke, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 116

Hardy, Thomas, 3

Harris, James, 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, 17, 18, 36

Harris, John, 93

Harris, Michael, 110, 114, 120, 121

Harrison, Bernard, 89, 93

Harte, Walter, 94, 96

Hatchett, William, 28, 128

Hatfield, Glenn W., 93

Havard, William

   King Charles the First, 35

Haymarket, 8, 104, 128, 130

Haywood, Eliza, 10, 25, 28, 35, 125, 128–9, 130, 131, 133, 160, 175

   Female Spectator, 130

   Fortunate Foundlings, 130

   History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, 16, 37, 130, 136

   Life’s Progress Through the Passions, 130

   Love in Excess, 129

   Opera of Operas, 128

Hephaestion, 69

Herostratus, 35

Hervey, John, Lord, 158

Hill, Aaron, 37

Hill, John, 96, 119, 149

History of Tom Jones, the Foundling, in his Married State, 94

History of Charlotte Summers, the Fortunate Parish Girl, The, 94

Hitchen, Charles, 142

Hitler, Adolf, 180

Hoadly, Benjamin, Bishop, 114

Hogarth, William, 8, 127

   Harlot’s Progress, 126

Homer, 52, 55, 99, 103, 109, 158, 160, 167

   Iliad, 52, 69, 70, 102, 103, 173 (see also Thersites)

   Margites, 52

   Odyssey, 52, 58, 166

Horace, 63, 99, 102

Howson, Gerald, 77

Hudson, Nicholas, 93

Hume, Robert D., 19, 32

Hunter, J. Paul, 18, 105, 107

Hutchens, Eleanor, 93


Ionesco, Eugene, 26

Irwin, William Robert, 77

Isherwood, Christopher, 67


Jacobite Rebellion, 3, 12, 83, 114, 115, 117, 124, 138

James, Henry, 50

Jarry, Alfred

   Ubu Roi, 180

Johnson, Samuel, 80, 97, 106, 109, 123, 125, 140, 147, 162, 175, 186, 189

   Rasselas, 62

Joyce, James, 167, 175

   Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 177

   Ulysses, 166, 184

Julius Caesar, 68, 70, 180


Kelly, John

   Pamela’s Conduct in High Life, 55

Keymer, Thomas, 48, 173

Koon, H., 135

Kreissman, Bernard, 48

Kundera, Milan, 175, 177


Ladies Magazine, 106

Lattimore, Richmond, 158, 173

Le Sage, Alain-René, 129

Leavis, F. R., 80, 92

Lennox, Charlotte, 125, 132, 133

   Female Quixote, 131

Licensing Act, 2, 10, 17, 18, 19, 35, 73, 112

Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 22, 23, 35

Linebaugh, Peter, 151

Lisbon, 122

Lockwood, Thomas, 19, 27, 35, 36, 37, 113–14, 120, 121

Lodge, David, 175

London Daily Advertiser, 96, 119

London Magazine, 96, 97, 106

Louis XIV, 83

Lucian, 5

Lyttelton, George, Lord, 5, 10, 12, 13, 111, 114, 116


Mace, Nancy, 107

Macklin, Charles, 8

Madam Geneva, 141 (see also gin)

Mallet, David, 63

Manley, Delarivier, 129, 131

   New Atalantis, 129

Mann, Thomas, 175

Mantel, Hilary, 174

Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, 3

Marriage Act, 81

Martyn, Benjamin

   Timoleon, 27

McEwan, Ian

   Child in Time, 171, 174

Meredith, George, 175, 176–7

Metropolitan Police, 17

Michie, Allen, 108

Middleton, Conyers, 39

Millar, Andrew, 37, 94, 98, 106, 117, 118

Milton, John, 109, 168

   Paradise Lost, 70, 71

   Paradise Regained, 55

Mist’s Weekly Journal, 110, 111

Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin

   L’Avare, 8, 29

   Le Médecin malgré lui, 8, 29

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 7, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 125–6, 132, 139, 151, 173

Monthly Review, 96, 106, 130

Moore, Lucy, 77

Moore, Robert Etheridge, 123, 134

Morgan, Fidelis, 135

Murphy, Arthur, 9, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 36, 98, 106, 107, 186

Musil, Robert, 175, 177


Newgate, 68, 70, 75, 78, 95–6, 99, 146, 150, 153, 154, 164–5, 166, 167, 173, 185

Nixon, Richard, 180

Nourse, John, 110

Novak, Maximillian E., 65, 77


Ordinary of Newgate his Account, Of the Behaviour, Confession, and dying Words of the Malefactors, who were Executed on Monday the 24th of this Instant May, at Tyburn, The, 78

Otway, Thomas

   Marius, 27


Parnell, Thomas, 163

Paulson, Ronald, 26, 48, 78, 100, 107, 135

Pelham, Henry, 114, 115, 116, 148

Penlez, Bosavern, 14, 143, 144–6, 150

Pilkington, Laetitia, 37, 173

Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 107

Pirandello, Luigi, 26

Pitt, William, Lord Chatham, 5

Plato, 53

Pope, Alexander, 1, 8, 18, 24, 27, 28, 54, 109, 112, 126, 154, 160, 162, 163, 166

   Dunciad, 7, 27, 28, 66, 109, 124, 129, 130, 144, 160, 163–4, 166, 173

      Fielding’s mock-epic attack on, 125

   Epistle to a Lady, 154

   Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, 158

   First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, 126, 174

   Iliad translation, 158–9, 160, 173

   Rape of the Lock, 66, 153

Potiphar’s wife, 53

Potter, Tiffany, 124, 134

Preston, John, 93

Price, Martin, 88, 89, 93

Proust, Marcel, 175

Prytula, Nina, 78, 173

Pushkin, Alexander, 175

Pynchon, Thomas, 181


Quinn, James, 8


Ralph, James, 8, 111, 112, 115, 117

Rambler, 118

Ranelagh, 96

Rawson, Claude, 48, 66, 70, 77, 78, 83, 92, 93, 100, 105, 107, 180, 188, 189

Regnard, Jean-François

   Le Retour Imprévu, 126

Rehearsal of Kings, A, 35

Remembrancer, 117

Renwick, W. L., 173

Ribble, Frederick G., 93, 113, 121

Rich, John, 22, 25, 33, 34

Richardson, Samuel, 1, 2, 38–49, 51, 63, 67, 80, 86, 90, 94–5, 97, 100, 104, 105, 106, 107, 122, 129, 132, 133, 161, 165, 173, 175–6

   Clarissa, 2, 80, 95, 105, 117, 122, 123, 125, 133, 161, 173

   Letters and Passages Restored from the Original Manuscripts of … Clarissa, 97

   Pamela, 2, 11, 22, 23, 38–49, 54–63, 67, 77, 94, 95, 122, 123, 125, 159, 161, 173, 176

   Sir Charles Grandison, 173

Richetti, John, 81, 93, 136

Richter, David, 80, 92

Riot Act, 143, 145

Rogers, Katharine M., 134

Rogers, Pat, 15

Rogers, Winslow, 189

Roth, Philip

   Our Gang, 180

Rothstein, Eric, 48, 93

Rushdie, Salman, 175

   Shame, 180


Sabor, Peter, 48

Sanders, Andrew, 188

Scarron, Paul

   Virgile travesty, 100

Scott, Sir Walter, 16, 99, 107, 175, 177, 184

Scriblerus Club, 1, 24, 25, 26, 28, 125, 163

Sedley, Sir Charles, 144

Seneca, 52, 53

Shakespeare, William, 1, 7, 20, 27, 54, 57, 73, 114, 127

   King Lear, 73, 78

   Much Ado about Nothing, 28

   Richard III, 73, 78

   Romeo and Juliet, 27

Sharpe, Tom, 175

Shaw, George Bernard, 1, 2, 20, 36

Shenstone, William, 26, 37

Simonides of Samos, 99

Small, Helen, 188

Smallwood, Angela, 123–4, 134

Smollett, Tobias, 13, 14, 16, 97, 119, 130, 131, 175, 179

   Faithful Narrative of … Habbakkuk Hilding (probable author), 97

   Humphry Clinker, 179

   Peregrine Pickle, 13, 97, 170, 174

   Roderick Random, 181

Sophocles, 52, 54

South Sea Bubble, 6

Spark, Muriel, 175

Spence, Craig, 151

Squires, Mary, 149

Stage Licensing Act, see Licensing Act

Steele, Sir Richard, 109, 111

   Conscious Lovers, 54

   Tatler, 118

Stendhal (Henri Beyle), 1, 175, 187

   Charterhouse of Parma, 184–5

Stern, Tiffany, 34, 37

Sterne, Laurence, 175

   Tristram Shandy, 98, 161, 173

Stevenson, John Allen, 93

Strahan, William, 94

Straub, Kristina, 127, 135

Stuart, Prince Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, 12, 114, 138

Suckling, Sir John, 168

Swift, Jonathan, 1, 8, 24, 28, 37, 54, 63, 68, 109, 111, 112, 155, 159, 162, 163, 171

   Battle of the Books, 159, 173

   Gulliver’s Travels, 7, 55, 113, 173

   Proposal for Giving Badges to the Beggars, 171, 174

   Tale of a Tub, 25, 54, 161, 173


Tey, Josephine

   Franchise Affair, 149

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1, 3, 4, 175, 186–7

   Barry Lyndon, 179, 186

   Newcomes, 187, 189

   Pendennis, 184, 186

   Vanity Fair, 176, 186

Thersites, 158, 159, 160 (see also Homer)

Thomson, James, 27, 112

   Castle of Indolence, 117

   Sophonisba, 27

Thornton, Bonnell, 96, 97, 100

   Drury-Lane Journal, 107

Trentham, Lord, 145

Trollope, Anthony, 175

Tyburn, 7, 75, 78, 147


Universal Spectator, 110


Vanbrugh, Sir John, 7, 23

Virgil, 25, 63, 99, 102, 103, 109

   Aeneid, 69, 99–100, 102, 166, 167

   Georgics, 55

Voltaire, F.-M. Arouet

   Candide, 150


Waller, Edmund, 168

Walpole, Horace, 12

Walpole, Sir Robert, 2, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 16, 26, 28, 29, 30, 34, 35, 66, 69, 73, 110–14, 125, 150, 180

Waterloo, 185

Watt, Ian, 48, 67, 72, 78, 123, 174

Waugh, Evelyn, 175

Weeks, Kay, 92

Welch, Saunders, 13, 145, 146–7

Weldon, Fay, 175

Welsh, Alexander, 77, 79

West, Richard, 50

Whitefield, George, 53

Wild, Jonathan, 40, 65–6, 67, 142, 146

Wilks, Robert, 22, 25, 29, 31

Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, 5, 94

Williamson, Mr, 122

Wimsatt, W. K., 26

Wodehouse, P. G., 175

Woods, Charles B., 48

Wycherley, William, 22, 23, 24, 26, 31

   Plain Dealer, 27


Yates, Richard, 128

Yeats, William Butler, 162, 172, 174

Young, Edward, 112


Zirker, Malvin R., 148, 151


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