...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 noveltj, and also from their fluttering...

...give halfpence to the beggar." Goldsmith thinks that the success of so-called sentimental comedies, "in which the virtues of private life are exhibited,...faults of mankind make our interest in the piece," may be due to novelty or to "their flattering every man in his favorite foible." But he thinks such...

...bedingten Zusammenschluß von Faktoren, die die Komödie 'heben', indem sie sie "ernsthafter1 machenj denn "the virtues of private life are exhibited rather...faults of mankind make our interest in the piece" (MH Abrams, A Glossary of Liter ary Terms, New York usw. ^1971, Begriffsbestimmung vgl. E. Erämetsä,...

...which was published in the Westminster Magazine of January 1773, where he described the style as one 'in which the virtues of Private Life are exhibited,...Faults of Mankind, make our interest in the piece'. However this was written as a puff for She Stoops to Conquer, partly to anticipate some of the critics'...

...Goldsmith, for example, attacking "a new species of dramatic composition" called the ""sentimental comedy, in which the Virtues of Private Life are exhibited, rather than the Vices exposed," deplores the crossing of tragic sympathies with comic indulgences, and concludes that the innovation...

...portato in breve alla sensibilità romantica. Note 1. Per Goldsmith, infatti, nella commedia sentimentale «the virtues of Private Life are exhibited, rather...Faults of Mankind, make our interest in the piece» (Essay on the Theatre; or, a Comparison between Laughing and Sentimental Comedy, in Collected Works,...

...Goldsmith wanted it to be as opposing 'a new species of Dramatic Composition [sentimental comedy] ... in which the virtues of Private Life are exhibited,...Faults of Mankind, make our interest in the piece' ('An Essay on the Theatre; or, a Comparison between Laughing and Sentimental Comedy', 1772), the Neville-Hastings...

...Goldsmith abhorred, is a descendant of Addison's Humour: "a new species of Dramatic 19 Composition ... in which the virtues of Private Life are exhibited,...Faults of Mankind, make our interest in the piece" (188).4 Although Goldsmith does not discuss comedy in terms of "masculine" or "feminine" features as...

...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...