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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Charlotte_Goodall_as_Sir_Harry_Wildair.jpg/220px-Charlotte_Goodall_as_Sir_Harry_Wildair.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="368" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Charlotte_Goodall_as_Sir_Harry_Wildair.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="299" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption>Charlotte Goodall as Sir Harry Wildair in <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_ConstanCouple&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The ConstanCouple (page does not exist)">The ConstanCouple</a></i></figcaption></figure><p><b>Sentimental comedy</b> is an 18th-century dramatic genre which sprang up as a reaction to the immoral tone of <a href="/wiki/Restoration_comedy" title="Restoration comedy">English Restoration plays</a>. In sentimental comedies, middle-class protagonists triumphantly overcome a series of moral trials. These plays aimed to produce tears rather than laughter and reflected contemporary philosophical conceptions of humans as inherently good but capable of being led astray by bad example. By appealing to his noble sentiments, a man could be reformed and set back on the path of virtue. Although the plays contained characters whose natures seemed overly virtuous and whose problems were too easily resolved, they were accepted by audiences as truthful representations of the human predicament.<sup id="cite_ref-Campbell_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campbell-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Harman_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harman-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bernbaum_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bernbaum-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Harber_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harber-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Elements_of_the_genre">Elements of the genre</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sentimental_comedy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Elements of the genre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The characters in sentimental comedy are either strictly good or bad. Heroes have no faults or bad habits, villains are thoroughly evil or morally degraded.<sup id="cite_ref-Harman_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harman-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The authors' purpose was to show the audience the innate goodness of people and that through morality people who have been led astray can find the path of righteousness.<sup id="cite_ref-Bernbaum_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bernbaum-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Brockett_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brockett-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The plot usually centered on the domestic trials of middle-class couples and included romantic love scenes. Their private woes are exhibited with much emotional stress intended to arouse the spectator’s pity and suspense in advance of the approaching happy ending. Lovers are often shown separated from each other by socioeconomic factors at the beginning, but brought together in the end by a discovery about the identity of the lower class lover.<sup id="cite_ref-Harman_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harman-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Plots also contained an element of mystery to be solved.<sup id="cite_ref-Brockett_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brockett-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Verse_(poetry)" title="Verse (poetry)">Verse</a> was not used in order to create a closer illusion of reality. It was thought that rhyme would obscure the true meaning of the words and make the truth disappear.<sup id="cite_ref-Harber_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harber-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Beaumarchais_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beaumarchais-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The playwrights of this genre aimed to bring the audience to tears, not laughter, as the name sentimental comedy might suggest. They believed that noisy laughter inhibited the silent sympathy and thought of the audience. Playwrights strove to touch the feelings of the spectators so that they could learn from the play and relate the events they witnessed on stage to their own lives, causing them to live more virtuously.<sup id="cite_ref-Beaumarchais_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beaumarchais-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Major_works">Major works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sentimental_comedy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Major works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Richard_Steele_by_Jonathan_Richardson.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Sir_Richard_Steele_by_Jonathan_Richardson.jpg/220px-Sir_Richard_Steele_by_Jonathan_Richardson.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="268" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Sir_Richard_Steele_by_Jonathan_Richardson.jpg/330px-Sir_Richard_Steele_by_Jonathan_Richardson.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Sir_Richard_Steele_by_Jonathan_Richardson.jpg/440px-Sir_Richard_Steele_by_Jonathan_Richardson.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="2926" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Richard_Steele" title="Richard Steele">Richard Steele</a></figcaption></figure><p>The best known work of this genre is Sir <a href="/wiki/Richard_Steele" title="Richard Steele">Richard Steele</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Conscious_Lovers" title="The Conscious Lovers">The Conscious Lovers</a></i> (1722), in which the penniless heroine Indiana faces various tests until the discovery that she is an heiress leads to the necessary happy ending. Steele wished his plays to bring the audience, "a pleasure too exquisite for laughter." Steele was an Irish writer and politician, remembered mainly for co-founding the magazine <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spectator_(1711)" title="The Spectator (1711)">The Spectator</a></i>. While he wrote a few notable sentimental comedies, he was criticized for being a hypocrite as he wrote moral plays, booklets, and articles but enjoyed drinking, occasional dueling, and debauchery around town.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Scholars argue whether a more important writer of the genre was Colley Cibber, an <a href="/wiki/Actor-manager" title="Actor-manager">actor-manager</a>, writer, and <a href="/wiki/Poet_laureate" title="Poet laureate">poet laureate</a> who wrote the first sentimental comedy, <i><a href="/wiki/Love%27s_Last_Shift" title="Love's Last Shift">Love's Last Shift</a></i>, in order to give himself a role. The play did establish him as both an actor and a playwright, and though some of his 25 plays were praised, his political adaptations of well-known works met with much criticism.<sup id="cite_ref-Koon_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Koon-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Pope_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pope-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Neither Steele nor Colley, or any other writer, made a career of writing sentimental comedies as the genre was popular for only a short time. In fact, all of the authors of sentimental comedy at this time wrote other forms, including <a href="/wiki/Restoration_comedy" title="Restoration comedy">restoration comedy</a> and tragedy. Sentimental comedies continued to coexist with more conventional laughing comedies such as <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Goldsmith" title="Oliver Goldsmith">Oliver Goldsmith</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/She_Stoops_to_Conquer" title="She Stoops to Conquer">She Stoops to Conquer</a></i> (1773) and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Brinsley_Sheridan" title="Richard Brinsley Sheridan">Richard Brinsley Sheridan</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rivals" title="The Rivals">The Rivals</a></i> (1775) until the sentimental genre waned in the early 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-Brockett_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brockett-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Frank_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Frank-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sentimental_comedies">Sentimental comedies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sentimental_comedy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Sentimental comedies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Love%27s_Last_Shift" title="Love's Last Shift">Love's Last Shift</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Colley_Cibber" title="Colley Cibber">Colley Cibber</a> (1696)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Constant_Couple" title="The Constant Couple">The Constant Couple</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/George_Farquhar" title="George Farquhar">George Farquhar</a> (1699)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lying_Lover" title="The Lying Lover">The Lying Lover</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Steele" title="Richard Steele">Richard Steele</a> (1703)</li> <li><i>The Tender Husband</i> by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Steele" title="Richard Steele">Richard Steele</a> (1705)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Conscious_Lovers" title="The Conscious Lovers">The Conscious Lovers</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Steele" title="Richard Steele">Richard Steele</a> (1722)</li> <li><i>The Foundling</i> by <a href="/wiki/Edward_Moore_(dramatist)" title="Edward Moore (dramatist)">Edward Moore</a> (1748)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_School_for_Lovers_(play)" title="The School for Lovers (play)">The School for Lovers</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William_Whitehead_(poet)" title="William Whitehead (poet)">William Whitehead</a> (1762)</li> <li><i>Le Préjugé à la mode</i> by <a href="/wiki/Pierre-Claude_Nivelle_de_La_Chauss%C3%A9e" title="Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée">Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée</a> (1735) – a good example of the French genre similar to sentimental comedy, <a href="/wiki/Com%C3%A9die_larmoyante" title="Comédie larmoyante">comédie larmoyante</a><sup id="cite_ref-Frank_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Frank-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Significant_environmental_factors">Significant environmental factors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sentimental_comedy&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Significant environmental factors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sentimental comedy was a reaction to the bawdy <a href="/wiki/Restoration_comedy" title="Restoration comedy">restoration comedy</a> of the 17th and 18th centuries. Many believed that the sexually explicit behavior encouraged by Charles II on the stage led to the demoralization of the English population outside the theater. Many felt that restoration comedies, which started out ridiculing vice, appeared to support vice instead therefore becoming one of the leading causes of moral corruption. One of the leading environmental factors that made way for this new genre was <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Collier" title="Jeremy Collier">Jeremy Collier</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Short_View_of_the_Immorality_and_Profaneness_of_the_English_Stage" title="Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage">Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage</a></i>, published in 1698. This essay signaled the public opposition to the supposed improprieties of plays staged during the previous three decades. Collier convincingly argued that the, "business of plays is to recommend Vertue, and discountenance Vice".<sup id="cite_ref-Collier_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Collier-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Cox_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cox-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other sentimentalists took on the responsibility to moralize the stage in hopes of repairing the perceived damage of restoration comedies. These playwrights and theoreticians used the theater to instruct rather than delight after puritan opposition to theater grew from 1660 to 1698.<sup id="cite_ref-Cox_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cox-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hare_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hare-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the opening night of Cibber's <i><a href="/wiki/Love%27s_Last_Shift" title="Love's Last Shift">Love's Last Shift</a></i> at <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Drury_Lane" title="Theatre Royal, Drury Lane">Dury Lane Theater</a> in January 1696 spectators experienced a new genre.<sup id="cite_ref-Bernbaum_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bernbaum-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hare_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hare-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were genuinely surprised by the unexpected reconciliation and the joy of seeing this, "spread such an uncommon rapture of pleasure in the audience that never were spectators more happy in easing their minds by uncommon and repeated plaudits and honest tears."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This enthusiasm was aroused by the virtues of the characters, creating a sense of astonishment in the audience because they allowed them to feel admiration for people like themselves. This feeling became the hallmark of sentimentalism. Richard Steele stated that sentimental comedies, "makes us approve ourselves more" <sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Denis_Diderot" title="Denis Diderot">Denis Diderot</a> advocated that sentimentalism helps spectators remember that all nature is inherently good.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sentimentalists met resistance with playwrights of true comedy, who also had a moral aim but strove to reach it by exhibiting characters from which the audience should take warning instead of emulate.<sup id="cite_ref-Bernbaum_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bernbaum-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sentimental comedy influenced and became absorbed into a new genre called <a href="/wiki/Domestic_tragedy" title="Domestic tragedy">domestic tragedy</a> beginning around the mid-18th century. These tragedies intended to use real-life situations, settings, and prose to move an audience and foreshadowed the realism to come in the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-Bernbaum_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bernbaum-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Brockett_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brockett-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hare_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hare-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_response">Critical response</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sentimental_comedy&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Critical response"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Beaumarchais'_An_Essay_on_Serious_Drama"><span id="Beaumarchais.27_An_Essay_on_Serious_Drama"></span>Beaumarchais' <i>An Essay on Serious Drama</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sentimental_comedy&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Beaumarchais' An Essay on Serious Drama"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Beaumarchais" title="Pierre Beaumarchais">Pierre Beaumarchais</a> was very much in support of sentimental comedy and describes his reasoning in his essay published in 1767. He explains first that the purpose of sentimental comedy is to offer a more immediate interest and more direct moral lesson than tragedy, and a deeper meaning than comedy. Since according to Beaumarchais noisy laughter is the enemy of thought, sentimental comedy gives its audience a chance to find silent sympathy and thought provoking isolation in tears. Being touched by the action on stage allows viewers to learn from the play and as good men are reminded of the rewards of virtues they are able to relate the play's events to real life. The form is praised for doing away with verse and rhyme as they can obscure the meaning – making the truth disappear. Beaumarchais is instead in favor of language found in nature, and used in sentimental comedy.<sup id="cite_ref-Campbell_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campbell-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Beaumarchais_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beaumarchais-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>To combat the opposition, Beaumarchais lays out come criticism of laughing comedy. He argues that laughing at others distances the laughter from those being made fun of and that mockery is therefore not the best weapon to fight vice. A play that encourages this type of behavior also interests the audience more in the rascal than the honest man showing the viewers that morality is shallow, worthless, and inverted. Even Beaumarchais admits that some critics describe the genre as deadly dawdling prose with no comic relief, maxims, or characters with improbable plots that will inspire laziness in young writers who will not take the time to write verse.<sup id="cite_ref-Campbell_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campbell-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Beaumarchais_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beaumarchais-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Goldsmith's_An_Essay_on_the_Theatre"><span id="Goldsmith.27s_An_Essay_on_the_Theatre"></span>Goldsmith's <i>An Essay on the Theatre</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sentimental_comedy&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Goldsmith's An Essay on the Theatre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In this essay, alternately titled <i>A Comparison between Laughing and Sentimental Comedy</i> and published in 1773, <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Goldsmith" title="Oliver Goldsmith">Oliver Goldsmith</a> invokes the classical definition of comedy through <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Terence" title="Terence">Terence</a> and insists that comedy is meant to expose the vices rather than the distresses of man. He argues that theatre is meant to amuse its spectators and while sentimental comedy might amuse the public, laughing comedy would amuse them more. He goes further to say that the characters of sentimental comedy are difficult to relate to and that audience members will, therefore, remain indifferent to the characters' plight. Goldsmith advocates that since sentimental comedies show distresses that they should be labeled as tragedies, though a simple name change will not enhance their efficacy. The essay is ended with a sarcastic comment about the ease with which any writer could create a sentimental comedy with just some, "insipid dialogue, without character or humour...make a pathetic scene or two, with a sprinkling of tender melancholy conversation...and there is no doubt that all the ladies will cry".<sup id="cite_ref-Campbell_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campbell-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Brockett_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brockett-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Goldsmith_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Goldsmith-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sentimental comedy had both supporters and naysayers, but by the 1770s the genre had all but died out, leaving in its place laughing comedies, such as <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Goldsmith" title="Oliver Goldsmith">Oliver Goldsmith</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/She_Stoops_to_Conquer" title="She Stoops to Conquer">She Stoops to Conquer</a></i>, which were generally concerned the intrigues of those living in upper-class society.<sup id="cite_ref-Campbell_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Campbell-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Brockett_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brockett-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sentimental_comedy&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Restoration_Comedy" class="mw-redirect" title="Restoration Comedy">Restoration comedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Domestic_Tragedy" class="mw-redirect" title="Domestic Tragedy">Domestic tragedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Com%C3%A9die_larmoyante" title="Comédie larmoyante">Comédie larmoyante</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_theatre" title="History of theatre">History of theatre</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sentimental_comedy&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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