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Restoration comedy is the name given to a particular brand of comedy, associated with the reign of King Charles II of England. During the rule of Oliver Cromwell, the theatres had been closed, and they enjoyed a resurgence under the new reign.
The people enjoyed bawdy, knockabout comedies of manners, which apparently reflected the atmosphere at the new court. The great exponents of the genre included William Congreve, John Vanbrugh, Richard Brinsley Sheridan and John Dryden. It would eventually lead to Jeremy Collier's Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1697).
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