Comédie Larmoyante (‘tearful comedy’),
type of play popular in 18th-century France, with which the name of La Chaussée is especially associated. While retaining the formal characteristics of stylized verse comedy, these plays presented virtually no traditional comic characters, the writing was sententious and sentimental, and the happy ending was reached only after many tears had been shed during five acts over the misfortunes of virtue unjustly persecuted. This type of drama made a strong appeal to contemporary sensibility.... ...
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