Or do they induce disdain within us, provoking muttered remarks about “dead white men” or “William Dowsing [Puritan iconoclast] was right ... Amidst the Black Lives Matter-induced iconoclasm of Summer ...

Strong, surprisingly a bit of a puritan himself, takes a dim view of Restoration comedy ... The punkism and official iconoclasm we have experienced have burnt the old corn stubble and left the fields ...