THE COMEDY OF MANNERS

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THE COMEDY OF MANNERS
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• What is commedy
• Comedy of manners in England
• The most important playwrights
• The way of the world

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What is commedy

• The term comes from Greek ??µ?d?a,komodia
• The aim is any humorous discourse to amuse.
• Its characteristics are
• Happy ending
• Choral singing
• Derision
• A reference to sexuality
• It starts with a prologue, recited by characters
  to introduce initial situation

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Comedy of manners in England

• Comedy of Manners developed in England between
  the 1685 and the 1700, thanks to the king Charles
  II
• Its aim it satarizes the social classes of
  Nobility and Aristocrazy
• It criticizes peoples manners of speech,
  behavior and relationships
• The themes were
• Materialistic nature
• Hypolitical existence
• Gossip of everyday life

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The most important playwrights

• William Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing
• William Wychrley The Country Wife (1675)
• William Congreve The Way of the World (1700)
• Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer (1773)
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals (1775)
• The School for Scandals (1777)

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The way of the world

• It was written in the 1700 by William Congreve
• The protagonists are the two levers
• Mirabell (mira-bell ?He who is beautiful to see
  him)
• Millamant (mill-amant ?She who has a lot of
  lovers)

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Work by
RIVETTI GIULIA