1. Comdey of the Restoration Period
Rover Through the prism of Restoration Period. If drama is an imaginative interchange between its participants on stage and off, a true extension of homo ludens, then the Restoration offers an example of one of the most rare games in the theatrical history. Played first in a theatre that was little more than a salon, and reflecting the behaviour of an unusually homogeneous audience whose preconceptions the audience shared, Restoration comedy rapidly developed an intimate style of speech and behaviour whose private signals were to be understood only in playing them. - J L Styan. ...
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