Comedy of manners

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

The comedy of manners is a genre that uses wit and intellectual dialogue to satirize the social behaviors, artificialities, and strict codes of a specific contemporary society. In this genre, the central focus is on whether characters can maintain equilibrium within exact, though often superficial, social standards.

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