2) §7. Congreve and the Comedy of Manners. VI. The Restoration Drama. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...true master of comedy, he took for his material the life about him, a life which still reflected the gaiety of king Charles s court. The thirty years which had passed...

3) §25. Kelly. IV. The Drama and the Stage. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...comic masterpieces. It inherits something of the spirit, without the gross immorality, of restoration comedy. The restoration contempt for the country and the exaltation...

4) Cibber, Colley. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...at the Theatre Royal in 1690, Cibber became successful as a comedian, playing the fops of Restoration comedy. His first play, Love's Last Shift (1696), is a landmark...

5) §6. Mrs. Centlivre. IV. The Drama and the Stage. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...dramatic work is subsequent to Collier s attack, maintains, essentially, the spirit of restoration comedy. Even The Careless Husband, despite Cibber s good intentions,...

6) V. The Restoration Drama: Bibliography. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Mary, and Anne. Ed. Arber, E. 3 vols. 1903–6. Aronstein, P. Samuel Pepys und seine Zeit. Die neueren Sprachen, Zeitschrift für den neusprachlichen Unterricht, vol....

7) Etherege, Sir George. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Revenge; or, Love in a Tub (1664) and She Wou'd If She Cou'd (1668)-set the tone of the Restoration comedy of manners that Congreve was to continue. His last play,...

8) Dobree, Bonamy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of London, Egyptian Univ. in Cairo, and the Univ. of Leeds. Among his numerous works were Restoration Comedy, 1660-1720 (1924), Restoration Tragedy, 1660-1720 (1929),...

9) §1. Significance of the term The Eighteenth Century English Drama ; Queen Anne s reign a period of transition in Eng. IV. The Drama and the Stage. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...be regarded, therefore, as a period of transition in English drama. Though the current of restoration comedy still runs strong in the first decade of the eighteenth...

10) §8. "The School for Scandal". XII. The Georgian Drama. Vol. 11. The Period of the French Revolution. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Teazle, are not studies of character, but occasional figures, vaguely suggestive of the restoration comedy or of Molière, 25 seen only at one angle, as they come...