Comedy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Revolution, the English comic drama reemerged with the witty, frequently licentious, consciously artificial comedy of manners of Etherege , Wycherley , Congreve , and others. At the close of the 17th cent., however, such stern reaction had set in against the...