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
It’s like a Restoration comedy run through a John Waters filter and sprinkled with Luis Buñuel itching powder.
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2022
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
Laurence Echard’s Terence’s Comedies, first printed in 1694 in the dress and phraseology of Restoration comedy, has received this accolade through the mediation of no less a modern translator than Robert Graves.
From Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) by Barnard, John
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