What is Comedy of Manners? Basic Outlines of Restoration Comedy

The term 'comedy of manners' is generally used in the literary history and criticism and more specifically applied to the restoration dramatists such as William Congreve and William Wycherley. This type of comedy continues to appear in the works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Oscar Wilde.

The Streamyx of restoration comedy owes to the powerful dramas of the French writer Moliere. It deals with the intrigues and relations of men and women of sophisticated upper class society. It makes fun of social groups and their fashionable manners. It is often satirical but in a good-natured way!

Many critics Streamyx objected the low moral tone of the restoration comedy. Wycherley's The Country Wife, shows the moral weakness of a particular social group meant for laughing at it rather than approving it. Sheridan's The School For Scandal does the same thing but there is nothing like complaining for the immoral behavior Lady Sneerwell and Sir Benjamin Backbite. It revives the wit and gaiety, while deleting the indecency, of the comedy of Restoration period.

The dialogue of such comedy consists of witty conversations and repartee as if fencing match! The Streamyx of jealous husband, conniving rivals, and foppish dandies all catches attention.

The comedy of manners failed in the early nineteenth century, but was revived again by many skillful dramatists like A. W. Pinero, Oscar Wilde, G. B. Shaw, Noel Coward, Neil Simpson and many other writers of the present era. It is artificial form of drama which is full of verbal wit and therefore, it is sometimes considered as cynical.

The cynicism and the occasional indecency of the restoration comedy led Jeremy Collier to react which resulted in another form of comedy known as 'sentimental comedy.'

Rakesh Patel has taught English literature for five years and Streamyx writes about education and literature. To learn more about analysis of school for scandal, visit englishliterature99.wordpress.com

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