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
Already, he said, "we are on a knife-edge with Restoration comedy … It's hard to find people who can teach and direct it".
From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2013
Matching elements of Restoration comedy and Brechtian theatricality with the clamor of the trading floor, this play maintains a breakneck pace and doesn’t really care if you can keep up.
From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2012
Crabbed age and youth: the old men and women of the Restoration comedy of manners.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1974 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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