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
Indeed, as many critics here have noted, Mr. Godwin’s production makes a case for this Restoration comedy as a work with a distinctly feminist flavor.
From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2015
For The Dancing Master, Arnold took inspiration from a Restoration comedy of 1671, The Gentleman Dancing Master by the playwright William Wycherley, who is better known for The Country Wife, another bawdy comedy.
From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2012
The formal characteristics, without the immorality, of the Restoration comedy re-appeared briefly in Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, 1772, and Sheridan's Rivals, School for Scandal, and Critic, 1775-9; our last strictly "classical" comedies.
From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
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