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Your search for: restoration AND comic AND drama


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Books on: restoration comic drama

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Journal Articles on: restoration comic drama

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Magazine Articles on: restoration comic drama

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Encyclopedia Articles on: restoration comic drama

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  • Drama, Western
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...comedy of humours. Drama from 1750 to 1800 The...neoclassicists and the Restoration playwrights in England...excess. In England, Restoration tragedy degenerated into bombastic heroic dramas by such authors as...epic personages. But Restoration comedy, particularly...Eighteenth-Century Drama The influence of Restoration...
     
  • Comedy
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...critical aspects of the drama to a minimum, but comic drama survived in medieval...in mock liturgical dramas, and in the farcical...a new and vital drama emerged. In England...and frivolity of the Restoration stage that English...
     
  • English Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...comedies of Oscar Wilde and the comic operettas of W. S. Gilbert...achievements of 19th-century British drama. The Early Twentieth Century Irish drama flowered in the early 20th...themes mythical in Yeatss poetic drama, political in OCaseys realistic...George Bernard Shaw wrote biting dramas that reflect all aspects of...
     
  • Acting
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...actors, all men, wore comic and tragic masks and...fairs. In religious drama of the Middle Ages...outlines. During the Restoration period in England...further information, see drama, Western ; Asian drama ; scene design and stage...
     
  • Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...manners that blend the brilliant wit of the Restoration with 18th-century sensibility. Both...Buckingham. Sheridans other works include the comic opera The Duenna (1775) and A Trip to...1977); J. Loftis, Sheridan and the Drama of Georgian England (1977...