sentimental comedy: Quick Facts

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Key People

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Colley Cibber

English actor and author

Farquhar, engraving by R. Clamp for Burney's Theatrical Portraits

George Farquhar

Irish dramatist

Richard Cumberland, detail of an oil painting by George Romney; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Richard Cumberland

British dramatist

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Hugh Kelly

British dramatist