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Do provide detailed information about lc knight restoration comedy : the reality and the myth

do provide detailed information about LC Knight Restoration Comedy : The Reality and the Myth

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    Deb dulal halder Halder

    Knights, L. C. "Restoration Comedy: the Reality and the Myth", Selected Essays in Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

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    he considers Restoration Comedy to be no more than a “myth”. The reason for it not being the “reality”, according to Knights, being the fact that even though it is categorized under the umbrella of a comic genre, it is hopelessly dreary, doltish and wearisome.

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    “The criticism that defenders of Restoration comedy need to answer is not that the comedies are ‘immoral’, but that they are trivial, gross and dull.”

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    Knights concedes Restoration Satire as somewhat the only worthy representative of the Restoration Age and its artistic contribution in the literary realm. He argues that Dryden’s use of non-dramatic prose, in his Critical Prefaces, for instance; the thematic eminence of Locke’s Second Treatise of Government; and the semantic clarity and precision of Halifax’s Character of Charles II, may have been limited, but unlike Restoration Comedy, they are not “altogether decadent”(107). In this regard, he writes— “… the prose in which Restoration Comedy is written – select which dramatist you like—is poor and inexpressible in comparison with the staple non-dramatic prose.

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