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.Theatre Royal, Drury LaneRelated: The theatre’s early repertoire helped establish the genre’s stage conventions.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.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.Poetic justiceRelated: Its comic plots often conclude by exposing vice and restoring social order.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.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.