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What is a comedy of manners?

What is a comedy of manners? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A comic work that satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters.
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He's an adventurous storyteller, interweaving comedy of manners with good old-fashioned Mediterranean melodrama.
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.
I might answer this by distinguishing the comedy of clowns from the romantic comedy of manners.
It's a very funny black comedy of manners set among the south London demimonde.
A 19th century comedy of manners in which two friends, Jack and Algernon, create fictitious alter egos.
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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