SOURCE: An introduction to in Restoration Comedy, 1660–1720, 1924. Reprint by Greenwood Press, 1981, pp. 9–16.
An English historian and critic, Dobrée distinguished himself both as a leading authority on Restoration drama and as a biographer who sought, through vivid depiction and style, to establish biography as a legitimate creative form. In the following excerpt, Dobrée comments on the relationship between comedy and political change, and describes what he considers to be the three distinct types of comedy.
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