Classic to Modern English Literature

Comedy of Manners, or Anti-Sentimental Comedy, is a realistic genre, shows Fop and Rake of Restoration Period. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar wilde is important one of the plays. Manander's style is included in this as New Comedy (325-260 BC). In the the seventeenth, Greatest playwright, Moliere's plays are included The School for Wives (1662), The Imposter (1664), and The Misanthrope (1666). Its didactic example is Horace's Satire 1.9. In the English literature, Much ado About Nothing is most important comedy of manners by Shakespeare. 

William Congreve (1670-1729), An English playwright, component of Restoration Period. His notable plays are The Old Bachelor (1693), The Double Dealer (1694), Love for Love (1695), The Mourning Bride (1697) and The Way of the World (1700). He works with classicism (provides the classical period). Importantly, he exposes comedy of manners and restoration period. In his thirties, he had completed three most influential plays. He got his major success through, The Way of The world (1700). He was died at the age of 59. 

In English literature, the term comedy of manners (also anti-sentimental comedy) describes a genre of realistic, satirical comedy. Satire and satirical comedy are used to analyze behaviors to make fun of, criticize, or chastise them in a humorous way. Satire is not one thing. A writer creates successful satire by using a combination of other literary devices. These include irony, hyperbole, repetition, and even types of figurative language like metaphor and simile. The comedy of manners emerged during the Restoration period , which refers to the re-instatement in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy in England, Scotland, and Ireland. This genre questions and comments upon the manners and social conventions of a greatly sophisticated, artificial society. The satire of fashion, manners, and outlook on life of the social classes is realized with stock characters, also known as character archetypes, which are types of characters in a narrative. There is a wide range of stock characters, coverin