 The Contrast (play)

The Contrast, written in 1787 by Royall Tyler, is an American play in the tradition of the English Restoration comedies of the seventeenth century; it takes its cue from Sheridan's "The School for Scandal", a British comedy of manners that had revived that tradition a decade before.Royall uses the form to satirize Americans who follow British fashions and indulge in 'British vices'.