LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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plots based upon mistaken identities.
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the obsession with the past, especially that of ancient Rome.
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the new trend of didactic moralizing.
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the emphasis upon tragedies.
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the immorality of previous comedies.
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Detailed explanation-1: -sentimental comedy, a dramatic genre of the 18th century, denoting plays in which middle-class protagonists triumphantly overcome a series of moral trials. Such comedy aimed at producing tears rather than laughter.
Detailed explanation-2: -Goldsmith opposed sentimental comedy because in place of laughter and humour, it provided tears and distressing situations, pathetic lovers, serious heroines and honest servants. intrigues of lust and greed the self interested cynicism of the character.
Detailed explanation-3: -In English literature, the term comedy of manners (also anti-sentimental comedy) describes a genre of realistic, satirical comedy of the Restoration period (1660–1710) that questions and comments upon the manners and social conventions of a greatly sophisticated, artificial society.
Detailed explanation-4: -’But there is one argument in favor of sentimental comedy, which will keep it on the stage, in spite of all that can be said against it. It is, of all others, the most easily written. Those abilities that can hammer out a novel are fully sufficient for the production of a sentimental comedy.