KnowraRestoration comedyLinked fromLinked fromThe 25 pages that link to Restoration comedy, each with the reason it gives.All 25Broader topic 4Related 13Narrower topic 7Compared with 1Romantic comedyRelated: Its urban wit and marriage plots developed a sharper, more worldly branch of romantic comedy.Charles II of EnglandBroader topic: Its courtly world became one of the most recognizable cultural legacies of Charles’s era.Theatre Royal, Drury LaneRelated: The theatre’s early repertoire helped establish the genre’s stage conventions.Comedy of mannersNarrower topic: Comedy of manners flourished in its English theatrical form after theaters reopened.British theatreBroader topic: The reopening of London theatres reshaped acting, audiences, and comic conventions.British comedyBroader topic: Its sharp dialogue and social maneuvering established a lasting strand of British theatrical comedy.Aphra BehnRelated: Behn used its conventions while writing roles for actresses and examining gendered power.Ben JonsonRelated: Restoration dramatists inherited a theatrical tradition in which Jonson’s satirical city comedies remained influential.Restoration literatureBroader topic: Its stage conventions became one of the era’s most recognizable literary forms.William CongreveNarrower topic: Its urban settings and sexual politics supplied Congreve’s principal dramatic tradition.Thomas BettertonRelated: The companies Betterton led staged the era’s comedies and helped sustain their repertory.Colley CibberRelated: Cibber adapted its comic conventions for audiences in the succeeding century.Samuel PepysRelated: Pepys’s diary records his frequent theatergoing and judgments of contemporary plays.John VanbrughNarrower topic: Vanbrugh’s plays drew on its witty dialogue, sexual intrigue, and social satire.Shakespeare in performanceNarrower topic: Restoration theatre reopened the stage and reshaped Shakespeare through revisions and new conventions.Anne BracegirdleNarrower topic: Bracegirdle's reputation rested especially on performances in this theatrical genre.Thomas ShadwellNarrower topic: Shadwell’s plays belong to this theatrical tradition and its changing tastes.Poetic justiceRelated: Its comic plots often conclude by exposing vice and restoring social order.William WycherleyNarrower topic: Wycherley’s plays are central examples of the genre’s courtship plots and social satire.Francis BeaumontRelated: Restoration playwrights revived and adapted several Beaumont and Fletcher plays.Barbara PalmerRelated: Its witty treatment of desire and adultery echoed the court culture surrounding Palmer.John WilmotRelated: Its irreverent courtly world overlaps with the social setting of Rochester’s verse.Kathleen WinsorCompared with: Its sharp comic treatment of sexual politics contrasts with Winsor’s novelistic melodrama.Kitty CliveRelated: Its plays remained central to the repertory in which Clive made her reputation.Susanna CentlivreRelated: Centlivre inherited its wit and intrigue while writing after the Restoration era.
KnowraRestoration comedyLinked fromLinked fromThe 25 pages that link to Restoration comedy, each with the reason it gives.All 25Broader topic 4Related 13Narrower topic 7Compared with 1Romantic comedyRelated: Its urban wit and marriage plots developed a sharper, more worldly branch of romantic comedy.Charles II of EnglandBroader topic: Its courtly world became one of the most recognizable cultural legacies of Charles’s era.Theatre Royal, Drury LaneRelated: The theatre’s early repertoire helped establish the genre’s stage conventions.Comedy of mannersNarrower topic: Comedy of manners flourished in its English theatrical form after theaters reopened.British theatreBroader topic: The reopening of London theatres reshaped acting, audiences, and comic conventions.British comedyBroader topic: Its sharp dialogue and social maneuvering established a lasting strand of British theatrical comedy.Aphra BehnRelated: Behn used its conventions while writing roles for actresses and examining gendered power.Ben JonsonRelated: Restoration dramatists inherited a theatrical tradition in which Jonson’s satirical city comedies remained influential.Restoration literatureBroader topic: Its stage conventions became one of the era’s most recognizable literary forms.William CongreveNarrower topic: Its urban settings and sexual politics supplied Congreve’s principal dramatic tradition.Thomas BettertonRelated: The companies Betterton led staged the era’s comedies and helped sustain their repertory.Colley CibberRelated: Cibber adapted its comic conventions for audiences in the succeeding century.Samuel PepysRelated: Pepys’s diary records his frequent theatergoing and judgments of contemporary plays.John VanbrughNarrower topic: Vanbrugh’s plays drew on its witty dialogue, sexual intrigue, and social satire.Shakespeare in performanceNarrower topic: Restoration theatre reopened the stage and reshaped Shakespeare through revisions and new conventions.Anne BracegirdleNarrower topic: Bracegirdle's reputation rested especially on performances in this theatrical genre.Thomas ShadwellNarrower topic: Shadwell’s plays belong to this theatrical tradition and its changing tastes.Poetic justiceRelated: Its comic plots often conclude by exposing vice and restoring social order.William WycherleyNarrower topic: Wycherley’s plays are central examples of the genre’s courtship plots and social satire.Francis BeaumontRelated: Restoration playwrights revived and adapted several Beaumont and Fletcher plays.Barbara PalmerRelated: Its witty treatment of desire and adultery echoed the court culture surrounding Palmer.John WilmotRelated: Its irreverent courtly world overlaps with the social setting of Rochester’s verse.Kathleen WinsorCompared with: Its sharp comic treatment of sexual politics contrasts with Winsor’s novelistic melodrama.Kitty CliveRelated: Its plays remained central to the repertory in which Clive made her reputation.Susanna CentlivreRelated: Centlivre inherited its wit and intrigue while writing after the Restoration era.