Bring out the salient features of Restoration Drama/ Comedy/ Comedy of Manners by referring in particular to the works of major dramatists.

Bring out the salient features of Restoration Drama/ Comedy/ Comedy of Manners by referring in particular to the works of major dramatists.

If the age of Restoration is one of the most splendid periods in the records of English Drama, it is on the account of Comedy of Manners. The so called Heroic Tragedy which had a brief run concurrently with the Comedy of Manners, had also a little of popularity, but was too unnatural and artificial and merely a type from French soil. As compared to tragedy of Restoration Age, Comedy of Manners achieved greater distinction and shame. It was the most characteristic product of Restoration Literature & reflects the spirit of the age more comprehensively than its prose and poetry. Dryden was the first to write Comedy of Manners with his Wild Gallant, which was a failure. He wrote several other Comedies of Manners also which were more successful. The chief practitioners of the comedy of manners were:

(i)         Sir George Etherege (1635-1691)
(ii)        William Wycherley (1640-1715)
(iii)       William Congreve (1670-1729)
(iv)       Sir John Vanbrugh (1661 -1726)
(v)        George Farquhar (1678-1707)

Following were the main characteristics of Comedy of Manners-

·       It depends upon the dramatists’ capacity to present the unemotional treatment of sex.

·       It is rich with wit and satire and gives the image of the time.

·       The heroine is more important and interesting than the hero in the Comedy of Manners

·       Both hero and heroine are well dressed, self-possessed and witty.

·       Whereas, throughout its long career, English Tragedy has always accepted foreign influences, English Comedy has been less influenced by them. But Restoration Comedy of Manners took good deal of continental spirit.................................................................................................

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