COMEDY OF MANNERS Definition & Meaning

comedy of manners

noun

a comedy satirizing the manners and customs of a social class, especially one dealing with the amorous intrigues of fashionable society.

comedy of manners

noun

a comedy dealing with the way of life and foibles of a social group
the genre represented by works of this type

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Origin of comedy of manners¹

First recorded in 1815–25

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Morris fancies Bridget’s struggle to adapt as the franchise’s latest play on its classic comedy of manners.

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Winifred might be the smartest, wittiest and most brutal psychopath to grace the pages of a comedy of manners that turns into a horror show — all in an age rife with repression.

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The central deviation is that this “Speak No Evil,” with its more pronounced humor and catharsis, treats the other film’s scenario as a ghastly comedy of manners rather than as a brutalizing, unheroic descent.

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The squirmy comedy of manners introduced May’s discovery, Charles Grodin, to the world.

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"The comedy of manners plays with the mores of civilization; it can lose its charm when civilisation succumbs to barbarity. In life, as in comedy, timing is essential."

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