12) comedy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...however, such stern reaction had set in against the bawdiness and frivolity of the Restoration stage that English comedy descended into what has become known as sentimental...

13) §6. Thomas Killigrew s and Sir William D Avenant s Later Plays. V. The Restoration Drama. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of Killigrew s works, 1664, The Parson s Wedding, likewise a pre-restoration play, is the most conspicuous. This is a comedy of almost unexampled coarseness, a quality...

14) XII. The Georgian Drama: Bibliography. Vol. 11. The Period of the French Revolution. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...1881. —A new History of the English Stage from the Restoration to the Liberty of the Theatres. 1882. —Principles of Comedy. 1870. —Art of the Stage as set out in...

15) D'Avenant, Sir William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...The Platonic Lovers, a romantic comedy of manners; and Love and Honour, a tragicomedy, anticipating the Restoration heroic drama. In 1638 he succeeded Ben Jonson...

16) Congreve, William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...duchess of Marlborough. The plays of Congreve are considered the greatest achievement of Restoration comedy. They are comedies of manners, depicting an artificial...

17) §12. The Duke of Newcastle. V. The Restoration Drama. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...taste of the court, to comedies of Middleton and Brome, the first years of the restoration passed by. 13 But comedy, on the revival of the stage, was not to be confined...

18) drama, Western. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...heroic couplets, these plays are replete with sensational incidents and epic personages. But Restoration comedy, particularly the brilliant comedies of manners by...

19) §10. John Wilson. V. The Restoration Drama. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...to individual playwrights of the restoration not incidentally treated in the paragraphs above, we find some that preserved untouched the older traditions of English...

20) Etherege, Sir George. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...English playwright of the Restoration whose comedic works, such as She Would if She Could (1668), gave rise to the comedy of manners as a dramatic form....