Restoration comedy

American  

noun

1. English comedy of the period of the Restoration, stressing manners and social satire.

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Example Sentences

But it’s instructive to note the immediate retaliation, in 2018, when the theater critic Quentin Letts, then writing for the Daily Mail, questioned the Royal Shakespeare Company’s casting of Leo Wringer, a Black actor, in a forgotten restoration comedy, “The Fantastic Follies of Mrs. Rich,” written in 1700.

From New York Times

It was an absurdly overabundant late harvest, so much so that he liked to chuckle ruefully about having become a character out of a Restoration comedy, in which an author collects all of his kudos on his deathbed and then doesn’t die.

From The New Yorker

Mitchell smiles wistfully: “I wish I could say the same. I would not run towards another Restoration comedy.”

From The Guardian

Herself a trenchant actor, performance is her way into Restoration comedy.

From The Guardian

Once again, the mysterious consensus-accretion of awards season has done its work and the Oscar nomination list has a big showing for Alfonso Cuarón’s magnificent Roma, with 10 nominations — and, notably, just as big a score for critics’ darling and perennial talking point Yorgos Lanthimos’s bizarre Restoration comedy The Favourite.

From The Guardian