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Any Elizabethan comedy set in London and depicting ordinary London life.

Specifically, London comedies that are Satirical in nature, depicting London as a hotbed of sin; in particular, the comedies of Ben Jonson , Thomas Middleton and John Marston .

It can be considered a forerunner of the Comedy Of Manners .

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English Drama