Types of Drawing Room Plays
Beginning with the early forms of drama, the drawing room play has evolved to encompass comedy as well as to include the forms of the dramatic monologue. The play format itself has also grown out of the traditional drawing room performance and back into main street theater and film. Drawing room comedy is also sometimes called the "comedy of manners." Many of the Drawing Room Plays adapted some form of social criticism in the transition from the Victorian period into the Modern era.
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