Restoration comedy
Americannoun
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The actress continued with the National Theatre for another two years including a performance as Mrs Sullen in the Restoration comedy The Beaux' Stratagem in Los Angeles.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2024
Buckley’s dialogue sounds like the witty combination of the vulgar and formal in Restoration comedy, but sprinkled into it — and one must assume this is deliberate — are modern colloquialisms.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2018
Style, not substance, is the priority in “The Way of the World” at the Folger, a romp adapted from William Congreve’s Restoration comedy, updated to now and relocated to the Hamptons.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2018
Restoration comedy seems to be making a comeback with Sheridan's The Critic recently paired with Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound at Chichester.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2010
Mr. Dagonet was always pleasant to see and hear, but his sarcasms were growing faint and recondite: they had as little bearing on life as the humours of a Restoration comedy.
From The Custom of the Country by Wharton, Edith
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