Meaning of comedy of manners | Babel Free

Definitions

A comic work that satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters.

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““The great millennial novelist”—the mantle has been thrust, by Boomers and Gen Xers alike, upon the Irish writer Sally Rooney, whose two carefully observed and gentle comedies of manners both appeared before her twenty-eighth birthday.”

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