Restoration Comedy - List of Notable Restoration Comedies

List of Notable Restoration Comedies

  • Charles Sedley, The Mulberry-Garden (1668) and the racy Bellamira (play): or, The Mistress (1687)
  • George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, The Rehearsal (1671)
  • John Dryden, Marriage a la Mode (1672)
  • William Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675), The Plain-Dealer (1676)
  • George Etherege, The Comical Revenge (1664), She Would if She Could (1668), The Man of Mode (1676)
  • Aphra Behn, The Rover (1677), The Roundheads (1681), The Rover, Part II (1681), The Lucky Chance (1686)
  • Thomas Shadwell, Bury Fair (1689)
  • Thomas Southerne, Sir Anthony Love (1690), The Wives Excuse (1691)
  • William Congreve, The Old Bachelor (1693), Love For Love (1695), The Way of the World (1700)
  • John Vanbrugh, The Relapse (1696), The Provoked Wife (1697)
  • George Farquhar, Love and a Bottle (1698), The Constant Couple (1699), Sir Harry Wildair (1701), The Recruiting Officer (1706), The Beaux' Stratagem (1707)
  • Susannah Centlivre, The Perjured Husband (1700), The Basset-Table, (1705), The Busie Body (1709)

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