Is Restoration comedy comic?

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 17 Mar 2005 17:52 PST

Here's a description of one such play of the period:


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Refinement meets burlesque in Restoration comedy. In this scene from
George Etherege's Love in a Tub, musicians and well-bred ladies
surround a man who is wearing a tub because he has lost his pants.
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Sounds pretty comical to me!

What sort of information are you looking for to make for a full answer
to your question?

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by a150964-ga on 20 Mar 2005 11:58 PST

I have to complete an essay on the pro's and con's of restoration
comedy in the seventeenth century. I have to anwser whether
restoration comedy was considered comical for that period of time and
provide a couple of examples.
 I need to be able to create an argument as to why this type of comedy
was  considered comic maybe comparing two writers such as Coldridge &
Shakespeare, or someone of that period. So I am really looking for a
straight forward answer stating 'Yes' it was comical because it
provided this and 'No' because of these reasons. please can anyone
help?   Thanks very much.