The Rise of Sentimentalism in English Drama 1690-1700

Degree Year

1931

Document Type

Thesis - Open Access

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

English

Advisor(s)

Jesse F. Mack

Keywords

English drama

Abstract

It is the purpose of this paper to make a study of those characteristics which are typical of the Restoration Comedy, and to show the influences which tended to bring about the Sentimental Drama, which is diametrically opposed in spirit and in material to the drama of the last half of the Seventeenth Century. The thesis is: that the moral characteristics of the Sentimental Comedy was caused by the rise and dominance of middle-class manners and puritanism, and by the influence of a dramatic theory which led to the emphasis on pity in tragedy.

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