Restoration Comedy
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
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Restoration Comedy, social comedy of manners which flourished on the Restoration stage. Artificial, cynical, licentious, and extravagant, it was a reaction against the austerity of the Puritan years, when the theatres were closed, and perhaps also reflected the House of Stuart's French exile. It is exemplified by the plays of
Congreve, its greatest exponent,
Wycherley,
Farquhar,
Vanbrugh, and
Etherege.
Dryden also wrote plays in this vein, but was better known for his
heroic dramas.
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