Tag: Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest

So I mentioned them as a Restoration innovation in “Shakespearian Tragedies & Happy Endings,” but what exactly is a comedy of manners? To be honest, it sounds pretty dull, right? (If I tried to think of a comical topic, manners wouldn’t be first on my list…at least not for wit) Yeah, well, although the genre does have to do with manners,...