Comedies of manners
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Name (Hebrew)
קומדיות נימוסים
Name (Latin)
Comedies of manners
Name (Arabic)
كوميديات السلوك
Other forms of name
Manners, Comedies of
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Comedy
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Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Sawyer, N. The comedy of manners from Sheridan to Maugham, 1931.
- Paine, C.S. The comedy of manners (1660-1700) : a reference guide to the comedy of the Restoration, 1941.
- Underwood, D. Etherege and the seventeenth-century comedy of manners, 1957.
- Reed, M. American comedies of manners from 1787 to 1870, 1926.
- Montgomery, D.T. The rakes of George Etherege's and William Wycherley's comedies of manners, 2008.
- Baldick, C. The Oxford dict. of literary terms, 2008(comedy of manners. A kind of comedy representing the complex and sophisticated code of behavior current in fashionable circles of society, where appearances count for more than true moral character. Its plot usually revolves around intrigues of lust and greed, the self-interested cynicism of the characters being masked by decorous pretence. Unlike satire, the comedy of manners tends to reward its cleverly unscrupulous characters rather than punish their immorality. Its humour relies chiefly upon elegant verbal wit and repartee.)
- The Oxford companion to the theatre, 1983(under Comedy: The Comedy of Manners originated in France with Molière's Les précieuses ridicules (1658), and Molière himself defined it when he said 'the correction of social absurdities must at all times be the matter of true comedy.' In England the Comedy of Manners is represented by the plays of Congreve, Farquhar, Vanbrugh, and Wycherley. These writers created a completely new dramatic genre, stylish, witty, and artificial, and salted with a degree of indecency which by the early 18th century was becoming unacceptable. The Comedy of Manners revived under Sheridan with much wit and less indelicacy.)
- Britannica online, Nov. 14, 2012(comedy of manners, witty, cerebral form of dramatic comedy that depicts and often satirizes the manners and affectations of a contemporary society. A comedy of manners is concerned with social usage and the question of whether or not characters meet certain social standards. Often the governing social standard is morally trivial but exacting. The plot of such a comedy, usually concerned with an illicit love affair or similarly scandalous matter, is subordinate to the play's brittle atmosphere, witty dialogue, and pungent commentary on human foibles.)
- DictionaryCentral.com, Nov. 14, 2012(comedy of manners. A form of sophisticated comedy, usually set among the fashionable upper classes, in which the characters' machinations are veiled by their elegant manners and elaborate repartee. The genre can be traced back to the Greek New Comedy but in its modern form was essentially created by Molière in such plays as Les Précieuses ridicules (1658) and Le Médecin malgré lui (1666). In England the genre flowered after the Restoration, following the success of George Etherege's The Comical Revenge, or, Love in a Tub (1664). English examples include Wycherley's The Gentleman Dancing-Master (1671), Vanbrugh's The Provok'd Wife (1697), Congreve's The Way of the World (1700), Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem (1707), Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (1773), and Sheridan's The School for Scandal (1777). The elegant wit of the comedy of manners was revived in the late 19th century by Oscar Wilde in such plays as Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). In the 20th century some of the plays of Noël Coward, such as Private Lives (1930), belong to this genre.)
- Wikipedia, Nov. 14, 2012:comedy of manners (The comedy of manners is a genre of play/television/film which satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class or of multiple classes, often represented by stereotypical stock characters, such as the miles gloriosus ("boastful soldier") in ancient times, the fop and the rake during the Restoration, or an old person pretending to be young. Restoration comedy is used as a synonym of Comedy of manners. The plot of the comedy, often concerned with scandal, is generally less important than its witty dialogue. A great writer of comedies of manners was Oscar Wilde, his most famous play being The Importance of Being Earnest.) Restoration comedy (Restoration comedy refers to English comedies written and performed in the Restoration period from 1660 to 1710. Comedy of manners is used as a synonym of Restoration comedy.)
- Quinn, E. A dict. of literary and thematic terms, c1999:comedy (The Restoration period in England saw the development of the comedy of manners, a form that feeds on dazzling wit and the creation of an artificial world. Although temporarily eclipsed in the 18th century by sentimental comedy, the comedy of manners has proven a remarkably resilient genre, reappearing in the comedies of Oscar Wilde and in a host of prominent 20th-century playwrights.) Restoration comedy (A type of English comedy associated with the last decades of the 17th and the first decade of the 18th centuries. Indebted to some extent to the French comedies of Molière, Restoration comedies were witty, sophisticated, elegant exercises, designed to reflect and occasionally satirize the manners, mores, and taste of its elite audience. Plots usually turned on the efforts of social climbers to gain advantageous marriages and their defeat by young, clever protagonists. Among the best of these plays are William Wycherley's The Country Wife (1673), George Etherege's The Man of Mode (1676), John Vanbrugh's The Relapse (1697), Richard Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem (1707), and, commonly regarded as the finest example of the genre, William Congreve's The Way of the World (1700).)