| I might answer this by distinguishing the comedy of clowns from the romantic comedy of manners. |
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| It's a very funny black comedy of manners set among the south London demimonde. |
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| It is as much social satire as fairy story, as much comedy of manners as giddy farce. |
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| In effect, this play is a comedy of manners and is also a lot like the work Oscar Wilde would have written if he had had more freedom. |
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| He's an adventurous storyteller, interweaving comedy of manners with good old-fashioned Mediterranean melodrama. |
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| It's a must see for anyone in the mood for a gentle comedy of manners with a hint of farce. |
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| She was the mistress of the low-key hut deeply felt comedy of manners, wherein ordinary, decent people struggle through the crises, major and minor, of everyday life. |
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| One of the characteristic genres of the period is Restoration comedy, or the comedy of manners, which developed upon the reopening of the theatres. |
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| The film could've been a standard comedy of manners, but the story has patches of unsettlingly modern violence that set it apart from other period pieces. |
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| Director Ivo van Hove has an eye for the crueller sides of this comedy of manners and a contemporary sense of innovative dramaturgy. |
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| A 19th century comedy of manners in which two friends, Jack and Algernon, create fictitious alter egos. |
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| You Are Mine is a two-act modern comedy of manners that explores or explodes the myth of marriage. |
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| What began as an English comedy of manners with the wit of Oscar Wilde has become a delicious pastiche of an Agatha Christie country-house murder mystery. |
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| This comedy of manners about unrequited love, social treachery, bad goth poetry, and monsters under the bed lures you in with daring imagery and gorgeous, dark atmosphere. |
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| She also appeared in the comedy of manners København ved Nat where she performed a dishevelled primitive dance. |
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| The comedy of manners is performed by a cast of French high-society characters. |
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| Congreve is the outstanding writer of the English comedy of manners, markedly different in many respects from others of this period of the drama. |
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| This stilted comedy of manners lacks a framework around which to dress itself and, subsequently, has the feel and look of a second-rate sketch show to it. |
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| These variations on the theme of an abandoned shoe allow him to work in wildly different registers from philosophical fantasy to elegiac lament and comedy of manners. |
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| A beautifully-drawn comedy of manners that sees Elizabeth Bennet take a strong disklike to the handsome, eligible but arrogant Mr Darcy. |
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| The slightly unsettling title in fact conceals a beguiling and often saucy comedy of manners in which the most fraught situations rapidly find a happy ending. |
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| A comedy of manners revolving around two European-American couples. |
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| A sublime, non-judgmental comedy of manners. |
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| Ripper Steet's Matthew Macfadyen plays dashing Mr Darcey in a charming version of Jane Austen's timeless comedy of manners. |
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| Mozart's 'Le Nozze di Figaro' is a farce with dressing up and disguises, a comedy of manners in which Mozart and his librettist Da Ponte cut the nobility and the powerful of the Ancien Régime down to size. |
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| The cast and crew of this comedy of manners include aspiring Emirati talent. |
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| This crossing of boundaries lends a tension and energy to what otherwise might be a light romantic comedy of manners. |
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| Anyone keen on another comedy of manners will be disappointed. |
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| The rather arch tone won't be to everybody's taste, but, helped along by some comic stereotypes mocking London's super rich, it makes for a sharp, comedy of manners. |
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| The comedy of manners is a new work by Reza, the writer of stage hit Art. |
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