""Patrician and Parvenu, or Confusion Worse Confounded"" is a comedic play in five acts, written by John Poole and first published in 1835. The play revolves around the story of two families - the aristocratic, but impoverished, Fitzherberts and the newly-rich, but socially-inept, Dabbletons. The two families are brought together when the Dabbletons purchase the Fitzherberts' ancestral home, and the ensuing confusion and misunderstandings that arise...