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(in the 18th century also called "Old Comedy") written and created by Restoration playwrights such as, amongst others, Congreve, Farquhar, Vanbrugh and Wycherley. Condemned as immoral and dirty. The "Comedy of Manners revived under Sheridan, with much wit and less indelicacy", Richard Brinsley Sheridan was one of the most influencial dramatists of the 18th century.

Sources: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. Ed. Phillis Hartnall and Peter Found. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1996.

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-also called "Old Comedy" written and created by Congreve, Farquhar, Vanbrugh and Wycherley. The "Comedy of Manners revived under Sheridan, with much wit and less indelicacy", Richard Brinsley Sheridan was one of the most influencial dramatist of his time.
+(in the 18th century also called "Old Comedy") written and created by Restoration playwrights such as, amongst others, Congreve, Farquhar, Vanbrugh and Wycherley. Condemned as immoral and dirty. The "Comedy of Manners revived under Sheridan, with much wit and less indelicacy", Richard Brinsley Sheridan was one of the most influencial dramatists of the 18th century.
 Sources:
-"The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre". Ed. by Phillis Hartnall and Peter Found. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1996.
+''The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre''. Ed. Phillis Hartnall and Peter Found. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1996.