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In 1642 the theatres closed. After Shakespeare there were no innovations in the English theatre. Playwrights only wrote tragedy, and the Puritan government caused production to come to an end.

Humorous performances continued in private houses of the British upper classes. When Charles II reopened the playhouses, French influence was inevitable because the Court had spent such a long period in France. The new theatres that were built were very different from Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres; they were indoors, smaller, and very similar to private playhouses.

The Restoration Drama is typically English. It shows the need to lough and enjoy the performance. In this period there are 3 kinds of plays: heroic play, tragedy, restoration comedy. In the "Heroic Play" there are brave heroes that have courage and honesty. 

The Restoration tragedies went back to the Elizabethan theatre for inspiration and they were written in blank verse.

The Restoration comedy depicts the Court with its immortality, luxury, corruption and excesses. It is written in prose.