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Vinony
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Restoration comedy

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breeches role
stage role representing a male character played by a female actor
Restoration comedy
theatrical genre
The Country Wife
1675 literary work by William Wycherley
The Relapse
restoration comedy written by John Vanbrugh
The Way of the World
play by William Congreve
The Beaux' Stratagem
play written by George Farquhar
fop
thumb|Colley Cibber as Lord Foppington in [[John Vanbrugh's The Relapse (1696)]] thumb|A foppish medical student smoking a cigarette, denoting a cavalier attitude