comedy of manners

English

Noun

comedy of manners (plural comedies of manners)

1. A comic work that satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters.
   • 2019 April 18, Madeleine Schwartz, “How Should a Millennial Be?”, in The New York Review‎^[1], →ISSN:

     “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.

See also

• comedy of errors