Sentimental comedy
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Sentimental comedy is an 18th-century dramatic genre which sprang up as a reaction to the immoral tone of English Restoration plays. In sentimental comedies, middle-class protagonists triumphantly ove
Charlotte Goodall as Sir Harry Wildair in The ConstanCouple
Richard Steele
Love's Last Shift
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Love's Last Shift, or The Fool in Fashion is an English Restoration comedy by Colley Cibber from 1696. The play is regarded as an early herald of a shift in audience tastes away from the intellectuali
Sentimental comedy
…whether a more important writer of the genre was Colley Cibber, an actor-manager, writer, and poet laureate who wrote the first sentimental comedy, Love's Last Shift, in order to give himself a role. The play did establish him as both an actor and a playwright, and though some of his 25 plays were praised, his…
Colley Cibber depicted in the role of Lord Foppington in John Vanbrugh's The Relapse, the sequel to Love's Last Shift