 The Conscious Lovers, while not devoid of laughter, replaces laughter with a serious attitude and a new set of comedic values.The fops and the rakes of the previous era are made relics, costumes that are to be ridiculed in public, as is Bevil's father when he attends the masquerade.Formally, the new sentimental comedy “tends to the monumental, both in plot details and dialogue.”[1] Characters speak in “sentiments”, or pithy moral statements of high theatricality that bear greater resemblance to tragedy than to the older comedies.