1.   Another important characteristic of the sentimental comedy is its moralizing, ethical nature.

2.   If Nivelle de la Chaussee was the great playwright of sentimental comedy, then Denise Diderot was the great theorist.

3.   In its subordination of character to plot, sentimental comedy moves in the direction of Romantic drama.

4.   Perhaps the most innovative aspect of the sentimental comedy is that it represented a new form of tragi-comedy.

5.   Sentimental comedy possesses several characteristics that are incompatible with the classic concept of tragedy and the tragic hero.

6.   The same posturing and gesturing, typical of sentimental comedy, is found in La conjuracion de Venecia.

7.   Their use many centuries later in sentimental comedy or bourgeois tragedy was purely artificial.

8.   These moral essays advanced other theories in harmony with sentimental comedy.

9.   Audiences, witness to secular plays and sentimental comedies, would weep a little and then go home happy.

10.   BRASSED OFF A sentimental comedy about a brass band in a struggling Yorkshire coal-mining town.