Comedy Of Manners

myth:comedy_of_manners

Moliere and the comedy of manners held a laughing mirror to the type and the vice — the hypocrite, the miser, the misanthrope — and after him Wilde, with his glittering, weightless wit. The comedy that ends, like Austen's marriage-plot, not in a grave but in the right union and the mended, reconciled world. — genre history