Restoration comedy
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restoration-comedy-178-7636747
title:
Restoration comedy
text:
Restoration comedy is English comedy written and performed in the Restoration period of 1660–1710. Comedy of manners is used as a synonym for this. After public stage performances were banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime, reopening of the theatres in 1660 marked a renaissance of English drama. Sexually explicit language was encouraged by King Charles II (1660–1685) personally and by the rakish style of his court. Historian George Norman Clark argues: The best-known fact about the Restorati
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description:
Theatrical genre rooted in late 17th-century England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_comedy
date created:
2002-11-02T16:18:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T13:31:07Z
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