Check out any 1930s screwball comedy and you will learn that it was ... In the streets now, it’s the manners-of-no-manners whatsoever, including the basic regard for human life.

His main interest is the current theater, comedy in particular ... and contemporary manners. Nor are the two unrelated. "At least you can say that one would not be interested in the 18th century ...

A scene from 'Museum' Is Museum an absurdist comedy of manners? A panoply of urban stereotypes? A commentary about the role ...

Eleanor Anstruther’s keenly observed, quietly devastating satire In Judgement of Others is set in an insular, English ...

The play is a “comedy of manners,” a historically popular genre which uses scathing satire to comment on the social mores of the time. Wright’s production of the play, however, modernizes it ...

This 1939 comedy-of-manners-cum-class-allegory-cum-social-tragedy was a disaster when first released in France—mobs reportedly tore up movie theaters—but is now regarded, rightly, as one of the ...

Filumena is a spry comedy of manners about gender politics and sexual double standards, paternity, blood ties and parental ...