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What the critics increasingly preferred was what came to be called “ genteel comedy . " By the 1750s their allegiance to this comedy of high life , a comedy too refined to admit country bumpkins or innkeepers , was so strong as to seem ...
What the critics increasingly preferred was what came to be called “ genteel comedy . " By the 1750s their allegiance to this comedy of high life , a comedy too refined to admit country bumpkins or innkeepers , was so strong as to seem ...
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“ Which deserves the preference : the weeping sentimental comedy , so much in fashion at present , or the laughing and even low comedy , which seems to have been last exhibited by Vanbrugh and Cibber ? " ( 3 : 210 ) .
“ Which deserves the preference : the weeping sentimental comedy , so much in fashion at present , or the laughing and even low comedy , which seems to have been last exhibited by Vanbrugh and Cibber ? " ( 3 : 210 ) .
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The Laughing Tradition : Stage Comedy in Garrick's Day . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1980. A valuable reassessment of “ sentimental " and " laughing comedy ( chaps . 3 and 5 ) , and an appreciative view of She Stoops to ...
The Laughing Tradition : Stage Comedy in Garrick's Day . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1980. A valuable reassessment of “ sentimental " and " laughing comedy ( chaps . 3 and 5 ) , and an appreciative view of She Stoops to ...
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| Title | Oliver Goldsmith Revisited Issue 487 of Twayne's English authors series |
| Authors | Former Chair of English Peter Dixon, Peter Dixon |
| Contributor | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Twayne Publishers, 1991 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0805770089, 9780805770087 |
| Length | 157 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General |
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