`A small violence to history': Reflecting on the past in Fielding's drama Eurydice Hissed.

Examines Henry Fielding's 1737 play, `Eurydice Hissed,' which represents the political conditions which led to the failure of Fielding's earlier play, `Eurydice'. Political satire about Sir Robert Walpole; Reference to Fielding's play, `The Historical Register for the Year 1736;' Collapse of distinctions between fiction and non-fiction.