The Ending in Restoration Comedy

Abstract

To heighten that rese mblance, I think sister, there only wants your rewarding the hero of the fable by naming the day of his happiness. (1) When the curtain falls, the theatre-goers whose senses have been assailed for three hours or so leave, carrying along with them impressions almost as idiosyncratic as the individual spectators themselves. The playwright is always anxious to know what sort of impressions his play has created on that aggregate group of human beings, since it is on the basis of such impressions that the play will stand or fall, and the longer the run, the more it will administer to his self-sentiment. After all, he is human

Keywords

• ending
• comedy
• restoration