List of books with the subtitle "Virtue Rewarded"

List of books with the subtitle "Virtue Rewarded" is a chronological compilation of books with the subtitle "Virtue Rewarded".

In books and other works, a subtitle is an explanatory or alternate title that usually offer a generalization or moral drawn from the work's plot. Subtitles were a common feature of English literary works of the 17th and 18th centuries, especially plays. In the early 17th century, this convention was sometimes made fun of, as in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night, or, What You Will"; while in the sententious 18th century, subtitles will normally point a serious morality, even in case of comic works.

The "Virtue Rewarded" subtitle has been used by a variety of books as a reminder or boast to reader/audience that the neoclassical principle of poetic justice will be upheld by the plot. With changing cultural perceptions in the 20th-century, such a principle has again become a joke. Note the rhyme Sordid/Rewarded in the title of Winifred Phelps' "Melodrama". In academic discourse in the 20th century, subtitles began to be full explanations of the subject of a work, while the title itself was a gnomic or cryptically poetic phrase. This reliance upon the subtitle is part of the comic density of literary reference brought into play in the "Anatomy of Melancholy" by Cook et al., implying that dissertation-writing is governed both by the poetic justice principle—virtue rewarded—and by the depressive symptoms described in Robert Burton's "The Anatomy of Melancholy" (1622).

This list is a compilation of works whose full subtitle is "Virtue Rewarded". Thus "The Crafty Chambermaid, or, Beauty and Virtue Rewarded" (London, 1800) does not qualify, nor "Virtue Rewarded, or, The Faithful Lady" (London, 1795).

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*Cibber, Colley (first published 1740, ed. Robert Lowe, 1889). [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Cib1Apo.sgm&
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* [http://www.samuelfrench.com/store/product_info.php/cPath/26_90/products_id/3888 Samuel French Inc. description in book catalogue] of "Temptation Sordid, or, Virtue Rewarded", at www.samuelfrench.com. Retrieved 12 September 2005.
* [http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/victoria/ref/ps_berg_cd13_200.html New York Public Library catalogue description of Barrett, "Sebastian, or, Virtue Rewarded"] . Retrieved 11 October 2005.
* "Shadwell, Charles", in Highfill et al. (1973–93), "Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800". 16 volumes. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press.
*Shadwell, Charles, [http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:ilcs&rft_id=xri:ilcs:ft:drama:Z000117867:0 "Irish Hospitality, or, Virtue Rewarded"] is available, through subscription only, in the [http://collections.chadwyck.co.uk/home/home_ed.jsp Chadwyck-Healey English Drama] collection. Retrieved 11 October 2005.
*Watt, Ian (1957). "The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding." London: Chatto & Windus. Contains a classic sociological study of "Pamela".