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Comedy and Conscience after the Restoration
Comedy and Conscience after the Restoration Author:Joseph Wood Krutch "In this lucid and perceptive book, [the author] describes how the Restoration comic tradition developed into Sentimental Comedy. He shows how the attacks on the 'licentious excess' of the stage, the return of a more conservative monarch to the throne of England, and the influence of a growing middle class brought about the demise of Restoratio... more »n Comedy and the advent of an entirely different form of entertainment."« less