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Restoration Theatre

In England, during the Restoration period, a type of tragedy developed. It was characterized by spectacle, violent emotional conflicts in the main characters, extra vagant dialogue and exotic setting. Frequently, the plays were written in heroic couplets. The scenery was elaborate.

The influences that produced the heroic drama were the romantic plays of the Jacobeans, especially those of Beaumont and Fletcher, the development of opera in England and theFrench court romances that were brought to England

The style of the plays is bombastic, conceived for a delivery that now seems mannered and rhetorical. These plays are highly conventional, and the conventions now seem absurd or meaningless. The hero hi

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Charles II, Couplets English, England Restoration, Beaumont Fletcher,

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