Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage
Yet , by the end of the 17th century , the Restoration comic style had collapsed: the satiric presentation of English life gave way to the sentimental portrait ( beginning in 1696 with Colley Cibber’s "Love's Last Shift" ) ( Bernbaum 72 ) . 
<triplet> Love's Last Shift <subj> 1696 <obj> publication date <subj> Colley Cibber <obj> author