Note 22 — The Rover (Part i); or, The Banish’d Cavaliers The Rover (Part ii); or, The Banish’d Cavaliers The Dutch Lover The Round-Heads; or, The Good Old Cause

In view of the extremely harsh treatment Ravenscroft has met with at the hands of the critics it may be worth while emphasizing Genest’s opinion that his ‘merit as a dramatic writer has been vastly underrated’. Ravenscroft has a facility in writing, an ease of dialogue, a knack of evoking laughter and picturing the ludicrous, above all a vitality which many a greater name entirely lacks. As a writer of farce, and farce very nearly akin to comedy, he is capital.