From the preface: Literature grows out of life. It is a mirror of society. Aristotle said, ‘Art and literature is an imitation of life, of things as they are, as they are thought to be, as they ought to be.’ True to this characteristic of literature, there grew in the Restoration Period (1660-70) in English Literature a kind of comedy known in literature as ‘The Comedy of Manners’. This type of comedy is so known because it portrayed the ...
