restoration comedy: stage inovations

Points of criticism: the stage

pamphlet war:

restoration
characteristics of comedy 1

restoration
characteristics of comedy 2

restoration comedy:
plot features

restoration comedy:
social background

Restoration Comedy:
Socio-Political Impetus

Restoration Comedy:
Plays based on aristocratic norms

Restoration Comedy
Stock Characters

wit

wit: Linguistic, rhetorical skill

wit: Way of life

WIT vs. MORALITY

The Country Wife (1675)
Comic Elements

the country wife: themes

the country wife: comic language

the country wife: comic characters

the country wife: comic situations

Restoration Comedy
Women

Sentimental Comedy

sentimental comedy: reduction of laughter

sentimental comedy: emotional invlvement

sentimental comedy: didacticism

Third Earl of Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)
Sensibility (Empfindsamkeit)

Involving the Audience Emotionally

Emotional audience involvement through sentimentalised relationships

Internalising conflicts and showing suffering characters

Sentimental Comedy
Didacticism: Contents