The Conventions of Restoration Comedy |
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artistic attitude Beaumont and Fletcher bethan Brome character Cockwood Comical Revenge Congreve Congreve's conventional Country Wife Couple Well Matched Courtall Crispinella cuckold dialogue dramatic Dryden elements Eliza Elizabethan comedy Elizabethan plays Epsom Etherege Etherege's example expression fabliau fool Gentleman Dancing Master girl habits heroine Hippolita humor Humourists husband ideas imitation Jonson and Fletcher Kind Keeper Lady of Pleasure later literary Little French Lawyer Love for Love Mad Couple marriage married masculine Mirabell mistress Molière moral never Old Bachelor older comedy Parson's Wedding pattern point of view prose Provoked Wife qualities rake Relapse relations Restoration comedy Restoration comic Restoration dramatists Restoration hero Restoration plays Restoration scene Restoration type rival satirical Scornful Lady sentimental sex duel sex situations Shadwell Shirley Shirley's Silent Woman similar social Spanish style theater theatrical themes thing tion comedy tone toration comedy Vanbrugh Widow Witty Fair women Wycherley young gallant