found: Work cat.: Robertson, T.W. Society ; and Caste, 1905:p. xxxi (natural acting which completely revolutionized the then existing methods; "tea-cup-and-saucer" and "bread-and-butter" school; its influence has never diminished; Pinero and other prominent dramatists of to-day gladly owe their indebtedness to Robertson)
found: Besant, W. The charm and other drawing-room plays, 1897?
found: Wills, W.G. Drawing room dramas, 1873.
found: Sketchley, A. Money makes the man : a drawing-room drama in one act, 191-?
found: The new Penguin dictionary of the theatre, 2001(drawing-room drama: A play that takes place largely in a genteel domestic setting, typically examining middle-class values)
found: The Methuen Drama dictionary of the theatre, 2011:drawing-room drama (A late Victorian genre characterized by respectable domestic settings and the examination of middle-class concerns and values. Similar works written by Tom Robertson became known as cup-and-saucer drama. Other British playwrights associated with the genre included Arthur Wing Pinero and H.A. Jones) cup-and-saucer drama (In the late 19th century, a realistic drawing-room drama that dealt with contemporary social issues. The term was first applied to the works of Tom Robertson, whose play Society (1865) introduced a new realism to the London stage in the era of melodrama. The popularity of his Caste (1867) helped to ensure that a more naturalistic style of acting would permanently replace the bombastic delivery and sweeping gestures of the earlier Victorian stage)
found: Bowman, W.P. Theatre language, 1961:drawing-room drama (Dramas, collectively or individually, which depict the social life of well-to-do persons in a drawing-room or similar setting) cup-and-saucer drama (A drawing-room drama, typically marked by the serving of tea and consequently by very little bustling stage movement; also collectively. Usually derogatorily, as originally of Robertson's plays of the 1860s)
found: Pavis, P. Dictionary of the theatre, 1998(Drawing-room play. Fr.: comédie de salon; Ger.: Salonstück, Konversationsstück; Sp.: comedia de salón. The drawing-room play shows characters talking, often in a middle-class living room. Its comedy is verbal, subtle and witty, with authorial interventions. The action is confined to an exchange of agreeably formulated ideas, arguments or nasty remarks (for example, Wilde, Maugham, Schnitzler).)
