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The restoration playhouse
An indoor theatre with candles. The scenery was painted and decorated and actors played in from the audience. With regard to the seats are divided according to social class, and the Royal Family is given always
a box
The restoration playhouse
An indoor theatre with candles. The scenery was painted and decorated and actors played in from the audience. With regard to the seats are divided according to social class, and the Royal Family is given always
a box
The restoration Tragedies
The representations that have been most successful are the heroic tragedies, a kind of tragedies that were written in rhyming couplets of iambic pentameters. In the XVII century these were replaced with comedies.
The Comedy of Manners
was born a new breed of comedies called "Comedy of Manners" that were the manners of the highest social classes, generally the topic was a amorous conflict.