...sentimental comedy includes a description which seems fair in outline, though pointed in tenor and detail: In these plays almost all the characters are good...their tin money on the stage; and though they want humour, have abundance of sentiment and feeling. If they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator...

...disrinction between 'laughing' and 'senrimental' comedy in an important essay in 1773; in the latter 'almost all the characters are good and exceedingly generous; they are lavish enough of their rin money on the stage, and though they want humour have abundance of senriment and feeling'. Goldsmith's...

...on the 'Weeping Sentimental Comedy, so much in fashion at present', by which Goldsmith means [plays] in which the virtues of Private Life are exhibited,...their Tin Money on the Stage, and though they want Humour, have abundance of Sentiment and Feeling.1 As with most binaries, this one serves an ideological...

...ages, a new species of dramatic composition has been introduced, under the name of sentimental comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited,...faults of mankind make our interest in the piece. These comedies have had of late great success, perhaps from their novelty, and also from their flattering...

...ages, a new species of dramatic composition has been introduced, under the name of sentimental comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited,...faults of mankind make our interest in the piece. These comedies have had of late great success, perhaps from their novelty, and also from their flattering...

...ages, a new species of dramatic composition has been introduced, under the name of sentimental comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited,...interest in the piece. ... In these plays almost all of the characters are good, and exceedingly generous; they are lavish enough of their tin money on...

...success, perhaps from their novelty, and also from their flattering every man in his favourite foible. In these plays almost all the characters are good,...their tin money on the stage ; and though they want humour, have abundance of sentiment and feeling. If they happen to have faults or foibles, ~* the spectator...

...a new species of dramatic composition has been introduced, under the name of sentimental comedy.... In these plays almost all the characters are good...their tin money on the stage ; and though they want humour, have abundance of sentiment and feeling. If they happen to have faults or foibles the spectator...