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Variety and dizzying fashion changes are typical of Restoration comedy. Though the "Restoration drama" unit taught to college students is likely to be telescoped in a way that makes the plays all sound contemporary, scholars now have a strong sense of the rapid evolution of English drama over these 40 years and its social and political causes.
Pages in category "Restoration comedy" The following 122 pages are in this category, out of 122 total. ... The Lost Lover (play) Love and a Bottle; Love and Honour ...
The Town-Fopp: or, Sir Timothy Tawdrey is a Restoration comedy written by Aphra Behn and first staged in 1676. [1] [2] It deals with an unhappy marriage and its dissolution.The play reworks George Wilkins' play The Miseries of Enforced Marriage (1607), itself based on events from the life of Walter Calverley who, as a result of Tudor wardship practice, was forced into his marriage.
William Congreve shaped the English comedy of manners through his use of satire and well-written dialogue. Congreve achieved fame in 1693 when he wrote some of the most popular English plays of the Restoration period. This period was distinguished by the fact that female roles were beginning to be played predominantly by women, which was ...
Frontispiece to George Etherege's The Man of Mode (1676).. The Man of Mode, or, Sir Fopling Flutter is a Restoration comedy by George Etherege, written in 1676.The play is set in Restoration London and follows the womanizer Dorimant as he tries to win over the young heiress Harriet and to disengage himself from his affair with Mrs. Loveit.
Love for Love is a Restoration comedy written by English playwright William Congreve.It premiered on 30 April 1695 at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre.Staged by Thomas Betterton's company the original cast included Betterton as Valentine, William Smith as Scandal, John Bowman as Tattle, Thomas Doggett as Ben, Samuel Sandford as Foresight, William Bowen as Jeremy, John Freeman as Buckram, Anne ...
The Virtuoso is a Restoration comedy by Thomas Shadwell, first produced at Dorset Garden Theatre in 1676 by The Duke's Company. [1] Well received in its original production, it was revived several times over the next thirty years and "always found Success."
The Relapse, or, Virtue in Danger is a Restoration comedy from 1696 written by John Vanbrugh. The play is a sequel to Colley Cibber 's Love's Last Shift, or, The Fool in Fashion . In Cibber's Love's Last Shift , a free-living Restoration rake is brought to repentance and reform by the ruses of his wife, while in The Relapse , the rake succumbs ...