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	Comedy of manners - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The comedy of manners satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters, such as the miles gloriosus in ancient times, the fop and the rake during the Restoration, or an old person pretending to be young.
		The comedy of manners was preceded by the new comedy of the Ancient Greek playwright Menander.
		The best-known comedies of manners, however, may well be those of the French playwright Molière, who satirized the hypocrisy and pretension of ancien régime in such plays as L'École des femmes (The School for Wives, 1662) and Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope, 1666).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comedy_of_manners (405 words)

	Greek and Roman Comedy
		THE comedy of Aristophanes was a medley of boisterous comic-opera and of lofty lyric poetry, of vulgar ballet and of patriotic oratory, of indecent farce and of pungent political satire, of acrobatic pantomime and of brilliant literary criticism, of cheap burlesque and of daringly imaginative fantasy.
		It is no wonder that the comedies of the later writer failed; he lacked the instinct of the born dramatist, who cannot help feeling the pulse of his contemporaries and responding to their unspoken demands.
		Indeed, as his comedies dealt with the life of Athens, which he did not know at first hand, and not with the life of Rome, which he could not help but knowing, and in the language of which he was writing, he cannot be acquitted of unreality and artificiality.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/comedy001.html (6236 words)

	Comedy film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A comedy film is a film laced with humor or that may seek to provoke laughter from the audience.
		Along with drama, horror and science fiction, comedy is one of the largest genres of the medium.
		A comedy of manners film satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Comedy_film (2590 words)

	comedy of manners - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about comedy of manners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The genre has its roots in Restoration comedy, although there have been changes within the comedy of manners as a genre.
		Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) is an outstanding example of a comedy of manners.
		The central character's inability to marry the girl of his dreams unless he is called Ernest typifies the genre's satire upon superficiality.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /comedy+of+manners (246 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Comedy of Manners
		Comedy of Manners formally pertains to a style of theater that flourished under William Wycherley, George Etherege, and William Congreve in late seventeenth-century England, that was reinvented by Oscar Wilde in the 1890s, and that was radicalized in the 1960s by Joe Orton.
		More broadly understood, comedy of manners is a literary mode that exploits for comic effect the distance between society's excessive concern with mannerly behavior and communal respectability, on the one hand, and, on the other, the self-interested motives that drive individuals' actions.
		A second possible reason for homosexual mastery of comedy of manners is that because gays are often prominent in fields such as couture, theater, design, and hotel and restaurant management, they often function as arbiters of fashion and are thus in a position to mock trends that sacrifice morality to the vicissitudes of taste.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/comedy_manners.html (641 words)

	comedy on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		What became known to theater historians as Old Comedy in ancient Greece was a series of loosely connected scenes (using a chorus and individual characters) in which a particular situation was thoroughly exploited through farce, fantasy, satire, and parody, the series ending in a lyrical celebration of unity.
		Shakespeare, whose comedies ranged from the farcical to the tragicomic, was the master of the romantic comedy, while Jonson, whose drama was strongly influenced by classical tenets, wrote caustic, rich satire.
		After an almost complete lapse in the early to mid-19th cent., good comedy was again brought to the stage in the comedies of manners by Oscar Wilde and in the comedies of ideas by George Bernard Shaw.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/comedy_evolutionofcomedy.asp (1444 words)

	Sheridan
		Comedy of manners: Concerns the manners and the conventions of an artificial, highly sophisticated society.
		The stylized fashions and manners of this group dominate the surface and determine the pace and tone of this sort of comedy.
		A distinguishing characteristic of the comedy of manners is its emphasis on an illicit love duel, involving at least one pair of witty and often amoral lovers.
	www.dbu.edu /mitchell/sheridan.htm (825 words)

	Comedy - LitWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Comedy is a term used to describe a play or performing art which generally ends in a happy ending.
		Comedy is a term that is defined in so many ways and credits it is easy to see why it is one of the more difficult terms to define.
		Comedy of Manners orginated in he new comed of the Greek Menander and developed by Roman dramatists Platus and Terrence in the third and Vicissitudes of young lovers(Abrams,Harpham 39).
	litmuse.maconstate.edu /litwiki/index.php/Comedy (432 words)

	ComedyDict
		Comedy of Intrigue: A comedy in which the manipulation of the action by one or more characters to their own ends is of more importance than the characters themselves are.
		Purged of its objectionable features, however, the comedy of manners was revived by Goldsmith and Sheridan late in the eighteenth century and in a somewhat new and brighter garb by Oscar Wilde late in the nineteenth century.
		Romantic Comedy: A comedy in which serious love is the chief concern and source of interest, especially the type of comedy developed on the early Elizabethan stage by such writers as Robert Greene and Shakespeare.
	www.dbu.edu /mitchell/comedydi.htm (3181 words)

	Drama Subgenres 01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sometimes, scholars distinguish between high comedy, which appeals to the intellect (comedy of ideas) and has a serious purpose (for example, to criticise), and low comedy, where greater emphasis is placed on situation comedy, slapstick and farce.
		The comedy of manners is also satirical in its outlook and it takes the artificial and sophisticated behaviour of the higher social classes under closer scrutiny.
		Ancient representatives of this form of comedy are Terence and Plautus, and the form reached its peak with the Restoration comedies of William Wycherley and William Congreve.
	www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de /intranet/englishbasics/DramaSubgenres01.htm (463 words)

	Comedy of Manners Links
		Comedy of Manners is known as high comedy because it involves a sophisticated wit and talent in the writing of the script.
		In a Comedy of Manners however, there is often minimal physical action and the play may involve heavy use of dialogue.
		A Comedy of Manners usually employs an equal amount of both satire and farce resulting in a hilarious send-up of a particular social group.
	www.theatrelinks.com /manners.htm (645 words)

	comedy of manners -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		A comedy of manners is concerned with social usage and the question of whether or not characters meet certain social standards.
		Comedy, said Jonson in Every Man Out of his Humour (1599), quoting the definition that during the Renaissance was attributed to Cicero, is an imitation of...
		He introduced to English theater the comedy of manners, a witty dramatic type that satirizes the manners and fashions of a particular social class.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9050579 (822 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Living \| Comedy of manners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Riham, a mother of a one-and-a-half year old boy, cautions her single friends that they're confusing gentlemanliness with manhood: a man can learn the rituals of being a "gentleman" but if he's not man enough then it's too late.
		In fact, as Shahenda, 25 and mother of two explains, these are really imported mannerisms among younger men; we didn't have this kind of thing in the old days.
		So many of the traditional codes of behaviour have disappeared and in their place is an odd mix of new, mutated and imported mannerisms that often do not fit in together.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/622/li1.htm (1718 words)

	comedy of manners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The comedy of manners pokes fun at the affectations, manners, conventions of society.
		These conventions of comedy make it easy for the audience to recognize the main characters and the overall plot of the play.
		The main thrust of the comedy does not rest with depth of character or whether the imposter will be unmasked, but with clever twists and turns in the action, with how the world will be restored to balance and harmony.
	courses.unt.edu /dvann/2220/comedy_of_manners.htm (157 words)

	Introduction to Theatre -- Types of Drama -- Comedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Shakespeare -- uses comedy in tragedy and tragedy in comedy and different kinds of comedies --difficult to categorize.
		Comedy of Manners / Wit: similar to character and situation aristocratic and witty characters.
		Comedy of character: eccentricities of the protagonist (Moliere)
	novaonline.nv.cc.va.us /eli/spd130et/typecomd.htm (525 words)

	Manners
		Appropriate mealtime child manners should be taught as soon as a child begins eating at the table.
		Teaching your child table manners can begin as soon as he graduates to big people food...
		IN general girls are likely to accept the fashions in manners that they observe about them, just as they accept fashions in clothes.
	www.mannerszone.0pi.com /resources/child-manners-table.html (128 words)

	Lynch, Literary Terms — Comedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Comedy is a big field, and a short entry won't do it justice.
		The New Comedy is probably the origin of the later comedy of manners, as seen in Shakespeare's plays and especially the comedies of the
		genre may take care to keep it distinct from comedy, but a comedy may be satirical and a satire may be comic.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Terms/comedy.html (360 words)

	Tracey Sanders ACU
		Put simply, the comedy of manners is a style of comedy that reflects the life, ideals and manners of upper class society in a way that is essentially true to its traditions and philosophy.
		A major distinction between characterisation in Restoration comedy and French Neoclassic comedy is the actor's sense of involvement with a character.
		Although the manners of the time were said to be realistically portrayed on stage, this is not the same meaning as realism on stage as we now know it.
	dlibrary.acu.edu.au /staffhome/trsanders/units/comedy/comedyofmanners.html (973 words)

	Epicharmus
		In these plays Comedy for the first time took formal shape, since he and his contemporary Phormis were the first to use plots (muthoi) and regular dialogues.
		In a certain sense, therefore, he may be regarded as the Cervantes of Greece, for as the latter laughed mediaeval chivalry to death, so Epicharmus was the first to make the great ones of the Heroic Age the butts of popular ridicule.
		But as Epicharmus is said to have created the character of the conventional parasite in his Elpis, he was also the founder of the comedy of manners as well as of the burlesque.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/ridgeway004.html (591 words)

	An Introduction to Moliere
		Moliere used the conventions of the comedy of manner to comment on the world in which he lived, especially the social life of the times.
		The comedy of manners was a 17th and 18th century literary invention, often in the form of a play.
		the manners and conventions of a society or of individuals are critiqued--the play as a whole is often a satire of the manners of the social group portrayed in the action.
	vc.wscc.cc.tn.us /engl2265/unit1/moliere/all.htm (971 words)

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		The actors and actresses in a Comedy of Manners maintain a mask of social pretense while communicating an underlying theme that is often in opposition.
		These comedies reflected philosophical conceptions of humans as inherently good but capable of being led astray through bad example, but that by appeal to his noble sentiments a man could be reformed and set back on the path of virtue.
		This trend in comedy was part of the current of egalitarianism present in social and political thought in the 18th Century.
	www.gwu.edu /~klarsen/genre.html (2874 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Glossary - BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Comedy assumes many forms, such as farce and burlesque, and uses a variety of techniques, from parody to satire.
		The comedy of manners was revived in the eighteenth century by Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, enjoyed a second revival in the late nineteenth century, and has endured into the twentieth century.
		Commedia dell'arte: An Italian term meaning "the Comedy of guilds" or "the comedy of professional actors." This form of dramatic comedy was popular in Italy during the sixteenth century.
	www.gale.com /free_resources/glossary/glossary_bc.htm (3482 words)

	Reel.com: Top 25 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Expect to enjoy doses of scathing satire, fl comedy, spoofy kicks, cheap thrills, slapstick antics, dunderhead silliness, hilarious angst, madcap misunderstandings, drunken wildness, Brit wit, and more seething from the mouths of everyone from cross-dressing soap opera stars to pregnant police sheriffs to way-out teens.
		Reel Snapshot: Nonstop, gag-laced comedy classic is considered by many critics to be the Marx Brothers' finest film.
		With scathing humor, timeless performances that remain razor-sharp, this is considered one of the greatest fl comedies of all time.
	www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=categories/comedy/25best (569 words)

	Comedy of Miss Manners: Etiquette with sense of humor Chris Watson: Bookends Bad manners are no laughing matter. Just ...
		Comedy of Miss Manners: Etiquette with sense of humor Chris Watson: Bookends Bad manners are no laughing matter.
		Manners will be at the Capitola Book Cafe this Wednesday to speak about some of the finer points of etiquette explored in her freshly updated 1978 masterpiece "Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior."
		Miss Manners believes that the true value in people is not what is in their murky psyches, which many keep in as shocking a state as their bureau drawers, but in how they treat one another.
	www.santacruzsentinel.com /archive/2005/May/15/style/stories/02style.htm (1475 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Save up to 30% on bestselling DVDs. Free shipping within Canada available on orders over $39 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Imagine a Cheech and Chong pothead comedy, only instead of two scruffy lowlifes, the movie is about an aimless Scottish gardener and a middle-aged British widow with a green thumb.
		Shore plays an insouciant college student asked by a friend (Carla Gugino) to pretend to be her fiancé over Thanksgiving break, thus discouraging a jerk back in her hometown from proposing.
		One-time star and co-writer of the greatest mockumentary of all, This Is Spinal Tap (1983), actor and director Christopher Guest creates this wickedly funny and intelligent character comedy with a cast of sublimely talented improvisational performers.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/14187711 (455 words)

	The UVic Writer's Guide: Comedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Comedy depicts humorous incidents in which protagonists are faced with moderate difficulties but overcome them and the play ends happily.
		Instead of being isolated like tragic heroes, comic protagonists are comfortable with their society, or become so; and their success is brought about through cooperation with others.
		In "high" comedy, human folly arouses intellectual amusement as well as engaging the emotions; whereas "low" comedy arouses laughter through jokes and clowning that have more appeal to the emotions than the intellect.
	web.uvic.ca /wguide/Pages/LTComedy.html (290 words)

	Opinions of the Wolf: To Say Nothing Of The Dog: A comedy of manners and pet preferences
		The frighteningly rich and appallingly mannered Lady Schrapnell has invaded Oxford University's time travel research project, promising to endow it if they help her rebuild Coventry Cathedral, which was destroyed during an air raid in World War II.
		The University thinks this is a great idea, until Lady Schrapnell seconds every staff member and student in the department, packing them off all over the past with little concern for their safety, well-being or the preservation of the space-time continuum....
		It is definitely a romantic comedy of errors that, while straying from the seriousness of The Doomsday Book, shares much of its predecessor's feel.
	www.redwolf.com.au /column/opinion/2000/07/to_say_nothing_of_the_dog_a_comedy_of_manners_and_pet_preferences.html (875 words)

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		Comedy sometimes makes you laugh, sometimes it just makes you smile.
		Comedy often captures the essence of a cultural moment in time and therefore may appear dated.
		Features low comedy skits and attractive women A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum is a parody of this form.ó¨SATIRE¨òUses wit and irony to attack a perceived evil.
	virtual.parkland.edu /gjohnston/COMEDY.ppt (159 words)

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