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Posted by: AlanScott 02:08 pm EST 12/01/13
In reply to: re: McNally;s charming AWAY WE GO: 2 errors ... - AlanScott 01:18 pm EST 12/01/13
The first sentence of the Cambridge University Press site's description of The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre: "This rich and varied portrait of drama from 1660 to 1714 provides students with essential information about playwrights, staging and genres in their social and political context."

The reason why the sentence you quote includes the phrase "indeterminate date" is because different scholars date the ending of the Restoration comedy period to different times, some even as late 1737, the date of the Licensing Act. But no one thinks it was still going on in the 1770s.

In fact, the very book you cite, British Dramatists from Dryden to Sheridan, gives the dates of Restoration Drama as being from 1660 to just 1700. The Comedy of Manners section contains five plays, the first (Etheridge's The Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter) from 1676 and the last (Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem) from 1707. They start the period of Sentimental Comedy in 1704 with Colley Cibber's The Careless Husband.

The book also includes She Stoops to Conquer, The Rivals and The School for Scandal, in a section devoted to Laughing Comedy, which comes after several intervening sections.

Again, so there's some overlap between Restoration Comedy and Sentimental Comedy, but Restoration is over in the early 1700s.


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