What is Sentimental Comedy? Tell the history
The Eighteenth Century was essentially an age of prose, poetry also flourished, but it could never reach the heights of prose. But English drama had a very lean time in reality, the history of drama from 1700 to 1860, is rather uneventful and flat. The Augustan age saw quite a few different types of drama the pseudo classical tragedy the Sentimental Comedy, the True comedy and the Opera but none of the drama of the period could rise above the level of mediocrity. Sheridan and Goldsmith, of course brought a breath of fresh air in the stuffy and sentimental atmosphere of the age but judge critically, their dramas are not of very high merit, their importance is more historical than dramatic or literary. The first point of significance to note with the Eighteenth Century drama is its loss of royal patronage, the Restoration drama was patronised by Charles II and his cavalier’s it was essentially the drama of class. Theatres were managed by courtiers, the play were mostly written
