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Basic themes in Restoration comedy: the younger son, marriage and the matter of inheritance, money. Morality. Satire. The pamphlet.

Charles II becomes king. Response to the puritans. Reforms to the theater… English Royal Patent of 1662 - Theater Monopoly and Women Actors. Coming from an age of Puritanism, people want marriage during this time… “Marriage of Convenience.” Comedy of Manners: reveal the foibles (gyarlóság) of the society that watched them. Society enjoyed laughing at itself. Restoration Comedies: Less interested in reforming society than in capitalizing on its faults. Between 1660 and 1700, over 500 plays were written in England, more than half of them comedies.

Morality is the differentiation of intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are "good" (or right) and those that are "bad" (or wrong).

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government or society itself, into improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.

The pamphlet is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding). It may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths (called a leaflet), or it may consist of a few pages that are folded in half and saddle stapled at the crease to make a simple book.

The Physical Structure of the Restoration Theatre.

Audiences seated on floor. Stage is raked, that is, sloped upward away from the viewers. Terms “upstage” and “downstage” develop. Elaborate scenery and mechanical equipment used. Move to the indoors, artificial light. Middle-priced tickets were in the pit before the proscenium-arched stage. The first-level boxes against the walls were most expensive. The lowest-priced seats were in the upper ranges of the balconies.


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