The witty, intellectual dramatic comedy genre known as "comedy of manners" portrays and frequently satirizes the manners and affectations of modern society. A comedy of manners focuses on social behavior and the issue of whether or not characters adhere to particular social norms.
The Restoration comedy of manners explores issues of love, marriage, and adultery. The characters typically feature would-be wits, envious husbands, cunning rivals, and foppish dandies. Affair conflicts and legacy disputes are also common themes.
The flamboyant display of clever, direct sexual conversation, boudoir intrigues, sensuous innuendos, and rakish behavior are key elements of Restoration Comedy of Manners. The language and acts in the plays are sexually explicit, and the tone is sardonic and cynical.
A mid-twentieth-century "comedy of manners" has been called Harold Pinter's play The Homecoming. Other more contemporary examples are The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, Excellent Women by Barbara Pym, As Bees in Honey Drown by Douglas Carter Beane, The Country Club, and The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane.
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