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A drawing room play is a type of play, developed during the Victorian period in the United Kingdom. They normally came in three-parts, set with middle-class characters confronting a social problem of the time with a comedic twist.[1] It is a form of Comedy of manners.[2] Exponents of this style include Henrik Ibsen; George Bernard Shaw; Oscar Wilde; Edward Martyn and George Moore.[1]
The name drawing room play has its origins located in the upper and middle classes of Victorian society, who with time in their hands, enacted amateur plays for the pleasure of their families.[3]
The style was was later revisited by playwrights such as Noël Coward and John Osborne in reaction against so called Kitchen sink dramas.[4]
- ^ a b David Scott Kastan (2006). The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 1.
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- ^ Peter Auger (2010). The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory. Anthem Press. p. 87. ISBN 9780857286703.