Restoration comedy is English comedy written and performed in the Restoration period of 1660–1710. Comedy of manners is used as a synonym for this. After...

Pickford The Restoration (1910 film), an American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company The Restoration (2020 film), a Peruvian comedy film Restoration...

sex comedies. Sex comedy was popular in 17th century English Restoration theatre. From 1953 to 1965, Hollywood released a number of sex comedies, some...

romantic comedy genre was shaped by 18th-century Restoration comedy and 19th-century romantic melodrama. Restoration comedies were typically comedies of manners...

The Stuart Restoration was the reinstatement in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy in England, Scotland, and Ireland. It replaced the Commonwealth of England...

literature, the term comedy of manners (also anti-sentimental comedy) describes a genre of realistic, satirical comedy of the Restoration period (1660–1710)...

interest when studying restoration comedy. This dissonance might explain why, despite its initial success, restoration comedy did not endure through the...

Alan Ayckbourn Jester Laughing comedy, as practiced by Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan Restoration comedy, as practiced by George Etherege...

Terence. Restoration comedy refers to English comedies written and performed in England during the Restoration period from 1660 to 1710. Comedy of manners...

Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1688), which...

incantation scene in Weber's Der Freischütz (1821). After the English Restoration of Charles II in 1660 lifted the Puritan ban on theatre, most British...

half of the seventeenth century, it was combined with the comedy of manners in Restoration comedy. In Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour (acted 1598), which...

his evidence. For Collier, the immorality of the title stems from Restoration comedy's lack of poetic justice. With his exhaustively thorough readings—in...

the arts. At this time the rake featured as a stock character in Restoration comedy. After the reign of Charles II, and especially after the Glorious...

satyr play). Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into three periods: Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, and New Comedy. Old Comedy survives today largely...

1689, Restoration style was superseded by William and Mary style. English Restoration Restoration comedy P. Arakelin, "The Myth of a Restoration Style...

Sentimental comedy is an 18th-century dramatic genre which sprang up as a reaction to the immoral tone of English Restoration plays. In sentimental comedies, middle-class...

written and performed in the Restoration period from 1660 to 1710 are collectively called "Restoration comedy". Restoration comedy is notorious for its sexual...

Alan Ayckbourn Jester Laughing comedy, as practiced by Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan Restoration comedy, as practiced by George Etherege...

with Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy. Soon after the Restoration in 1660, Etherege wrote his comedy of The Comical Revenge or Love in a Tub, which brought...

Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restoration comedies, The Relapse (1696) and The Provoked Wife (1697), which have become...

English comedies written and performed in the Restoration period from 1660 to 1710 are collectively called "Restoration comedy". Restoration comedy is notorious...

Marriage à la Mode is a Restoration comedy by John Dryden, first performed in London in 1673 by the King's Company. It is written in a combination of prose...

Cibber's Love's Last Shift (1696). Fop characters appear in many Restoration comedies, including sir Fopling Flutter in George Etherege's The Man of Mode...

Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. It is widely regarded as one of the best Restoration comedies and is still occasionally performed in operas and theatres. Initially...

The Relapse, or, Virtue in Danger is a Restoration comedy from 1696 written by John Vanbrugh. The play is a sequel to Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift...

2012). "Ed Sylvanus Iskandar Will Direct NYC Premiere of Amy Freed's Restoration Comedy at The Flea". Playbill. Retrieved 18 March 2024. "Mari Yamamoto"....

Canada, New Zealand and Australia to put on revues each year, combining comedy sketches, songs, parodies, films and sound-bites. One of the most notable...

modern Restoration comedy". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 June 2024. Millward, Tom (5 April 2024). "Shakespeare's Globe reveals cast of The Comedy of Errors"...

Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written by William Wycherley and first performed in 1675. A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, the play...