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Restoration (in English history)
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......outstanding result of the Restoration was the reopening of...great revival of the drama (see English literature...and in poetry the Restoration is distinguished by...Nicoll, A History of Restoration Drama (1923); B. Willey......
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Wycherley, William
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......and friendship. His brilliant wit and savagely clever satire give him a prominent place in the history of English Restoration drama. He lost court favor by his marriage (c.1680) to the countess of Drogheda, and after her death he spent several......
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Farquhar, George
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......His plays, written in an atmosphere of genial merriment, represent the transition between the licentiousness of Restoration drama and the sentimentality of the 18th cent. See his complete works (ed. by C. A. Stonehill, 1930); studies by......
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D'Avenant, Sir William
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......gap between the Elizabethan and Restoration ages. His best plays appeared...tragicomedy, anticipating the Restoration heroic drama. In 1638 he succeeded Ben...part 2, 1659). After the Restoration he and Thomas Killigrew were......
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Evans, Dame Edith
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......distinguished career on the stage and in films. She was celebrated for her performances in Elizabethan, Restoration, and 18th-century drama, as well as in modern works. Evans was made Dame of the British Empire in 1946. Her notable films include......
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Luria, Isaac ben Solomon
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......redemption and cosmic restoration. Man's deeds, linked...integral part of the cosmic drama, work toward man's redemption by aiding in the restoration of the cosmos to its...who will effect this restoration and thereby bring forth......
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comedy
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......commedia dell'arte in the drama of Molière, one of the greatest...Revolution, the English comic drama reemerged with the witty...bawdiness and frivolity of the Restoration stage that English comedy descended...as sentimental comedy. This drama, which sought more to evoke......
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acting
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......entertained at fairs. In religious drama of the Middle Ages, an actor...general outlines. During the Restoration period in England, Thomas Betterton...TopicsFor further information, see drama, Western; Asian drama; scene design and stage lighting......
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Japanese music
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......sacred and secular is the music of the No drama, dating from the 14th cent. (see Asian drama). It is restrained vocal recitative, utai...in pieces for voice and koto.The Meiji restoration saw the importation of Western music to Japan......
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Milton, John
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......Commonwealth to the very end. After the Restoration (1660) he was forced into hiding for...his work on Paradise Lost before the Restoration. The blank-verse poem in ten books...flourishes. Samson Agonistes, a poetic drama modeled on classical Greek tragedy but......