Comedy of Manners - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Ashton, John W. “The Comedy of Manners.” In Types of English Drama, pp. 385-88. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940.

Overview of the comedy of manners; discusses its characteristics and praises William Congreve's contributions.

Knutson, Harold C. “Corneille and the Comedy of Manners.” Papers on French Seventeenth Century 11, no. 21 (1984): 393-407.

Finds resemblances in tone, character, and structure between the English comedy of manners and the comedies of French dramatist Pierre Corneille.

Muir, Kenneth. “Decline and Renewal.” In The Comedy of Manners, pp. 154-65. London: Hutchinson University Library, 1970.

Views the late eighteenth-century comedies of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Oliver Goldsmith as a revival of the comedy of manners, and a reaction to the sentimental comedy that had gained ascendancy.

Sharma, R. C. “The Gay and...

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