Comedy of Manners
Appearance
also called "Old Comedy" written and created by Congreve, Farquhar, Vanbrugh and Wycherley. The "Comedy of Manners revived under Sheridan, with much wit and less indelicacy".
Sources: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. Ed. by Phillis Hartnall and Peter Found. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1996.