Well-made works of drama that have trivial, insignificant, or morally objectionable plots.
Origin
[[w:Victorien Sardou + Sardou]]
The term was invented by George Bernard Shaw who first used it on the 1 June, 1895 in the Saturday Review when criticising Victorien Sardou's well-made plays.
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