What is comedy of manners in English literature?

Ben Jonson

Comedy (from the Greek: κωμῳδία, kōmōdía) is a genre of fiction consisting of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium.

Comedy is entertainment consisting of jokes intended to make an audience laugh. For ancient Greeks and Romans a comedy was a stage-play with a happy ending. In the Middle Ages, the term expanded to include narrative poems with happy endings and a lighter tone.

In English literature, the term comedy of manners (also anti-sentimental comedy) describes a genre of realistic, satirical comedy of the Restoration period (1660–1710) that questions and comments upon the manners and social conventions of a greatly sophisticated, artificial society.

The Earl of Rochester, real-life Restoration rake, courtier and poet, is flatteringly portrayed in Etherege’s The Man of Mode (1676) as a riotous, witty, intellectual, and sexually irresistible aristocrat, a template for posterity’s idea of the glamorous Restoration rake (actually never a very common character in …

Anti–Sentimental comedy

• When we discuss about the Anti–sentimental comedy, first we clear the idea about, what is sentimental comedy?
• This form becomes popular in 18th century. …
• Richard Steele was pioneer of sentimental comedy and the best known sentimental comedy is ‘The Conscious Lover’.

Anti-sentimental comedy was emerged as a dramatic form in a reaction against ‘Sentimental Comedy‘ of the 18th century. Goldsmith laid its foundation and pioneered this movement in England along with R.B. Sheridan.

laughing comedy

A sentimentalist is someone who’s prone to being sentimental—expressing, expressing, appealing to, or being moved by sensitive or tender emotions, such as love, nostalgia, or pity. In other words, a sentimentalist is someone who’s prone to sentimentalism or sentimentality.