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The 21 pages that link to Comedy of manners, each with the reason it gives.

• Oscar WildeRelated: Its polished dialogue and social satire shaped Wilde’s best-known society comedies.

• Character comedyRelated: Its social types and relationships make personality a vehicle for humor.

• Social satireRelated: It often overlaps with social satire but focuses especially on etiquette and courtship.

• Neil SimonRelated: His urban characters’ anxieties often surface through sharp social observation.

• The WomenRelated: The play’s wit depends on polished speech and class-bound rules of conduct.

• Greek comedyRelated: Its social satire echoes one strand of Greek comedy’s critique of public life.

• Denis FonvizinRelated: His plays turn aristocratic speech, courtship, and status-seeking into comic targets.

• William WycherleyRelated: His characters expose fashionable society by manipulating its codes of honor and desire.

• Christopher FryRelated: Fry’s verbal wit often works through clashes in manners and social expectation.

• Wendy WassersteinRelated: Wasserstein used social humor to examine class, relationships, and women’s expectations.