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- A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained, and an alternative name for a living room. The name is derived from the 16th-century...8 KB (1,122 words) - 02:09, 12 July 2024
- English literature, the term comedy of manners (also anti-sentimental comedy) describes a genre of realistic, satirical comedy of the Restoration period...7 KB (899 words) - 20:38, 31 May 2024
- traditional drawing room performance and back into main street theatre and film. Drawing room comedy is also sometimes called the "comedy of manners."...2 KB (319 words) - 14:41, 16 June 2024
- class in a superficial drawing-room comedy. A close paraphase of the saying, was used in George Bernard Shaw's 1914 drawing-room comedy Misalliance, in which...12 KB (1,256 words) - 16:56, 5 August 2024
- Dürrenmatt's 1950 play Romulus der Große) (1962) Weekend (1968) Drawing Room Comedy (1970) An Evening with Richard Nixon (1970) ISBN 0-394-71869-0 On...7 KB (913 words) - 11:00, 11 August 2024
- starts out seeming to be a light satire of the traditional British drawing room comedy. As it progresses, however, the work becomes a darker philosophical/psychological...9 KB (1,096 words) - 10:26, 8 June 2024
- She was known for her versatility, and appeared in Shakespeare, drawing room comedy, pantomime, modern drama, and classics such as Ibsen and Chekhov...15 KB (1,510 words) - 00:07, 23 July 2024
- range of roles from Shakespeare to farce, modern drama, musicals, drawing-room comedy, and thrillers. He made some cinema films, particularly in the late...30 KB (3,796 words) - 11:07, 6 July 2024
- Vincent Canby in The New York Times hailed it as a "kind of lethal drawing-room comedy." The Time Out reviewer wrote of Christopher Hampton's screenplay...36 KB (2,770 words) - 22:34, 8 August 2024
- are considered to have instigated a new form of drama known as 'drawing-room comedy' or 'cup and saucer drama', owing to the realism of their stage sets...8 KB (931 words) - 10:09, 15 March 2024
- Literature (2002) wrote that the play's "peculiar combination of drawing-room comedy in a genteel southern home with sinister corruption of the Nazi regime...12 KB (1,309 words) - 18:40, 13 July 2024
- The Bank Dick (category 1940s crime comedy films)using the alias Mahatma Kane Jeeves (derived from the Broadway drawing-room comedy cliché "My hat, my cane, Jeeves!"), and directed by Edward F. Cline...14 KB (1,553 words) - 23:34, 9 May 2024
- pleasurably discombobulating experience, sometimes playing like mordant drawing-room comedy and sometimes flirting with expressionist nightmare, as when Welles'...73 KB (4,614 words) - 23:10, 23 August 2024
- His other successes included Trelawny of the "Wells" (1898), a romantic comedy celebrating the theatre, old and new, and The Gay Lord Quex, about a reformed...49 KB (5,701 words) - 00:59, 20 February 2024
- Bedazzled (2000 film) (category 2000 romantic comedy films)stunts, car crashes and computer-generated effects. What should be a drawing-room comedy ends with moments best left to Gone in 60 Seconds." "Bedazzled (2000)"...14 KB (1,411 words) - 23:07, 14 August 2024
- in July 1972, he surprised many by joining Peggy Ashcroft in a drawing-room comedy, Lloyd George Knew My Father by William Douglas-Home. Some critics...85 KB (11,144 words) - 08:13, 30 June 2024
- wrote of Thurman that "the effort to play the naughty heroine in a drawing room comedy (which is how director Pam MacKinnon has misdirected her) is beyond...5 KB (449 words) - 01:29, 7 December 2023
- The Importance of Being Earnest. Aynesworth generally appeared in drawing room comedy and contemporary high-society dramas, usually avoiding old classics...15 KB (1,896 words) - 08:49, 30 July 2024
- with music and libretto by Ernst Krenek, his Op. 111. This "little drawing room comedy" is set in London at the turn of the 20th century, and features a...5 KB (636 words) - 22:09, 17 August 2024
- Soul Plane (category 2004 comedy films)that it makes a spoof like Airplane seem as demure as a vintage drawing-room comedy." The A.V. Club's Nathan Rabin criticized the film for having stereotypical...16 KB (1,656 words) - 22:43, 25 August 2024
- GRIMTHORPE THE REV. CYRIL SMITH MORRIS CARLEON HASTINGS, the Duke's Secretary THE STRANGER PATRICIA CARLEON The action takes place in the Duke's Drawing-room.
- refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat. ~ Peter Sellers proposed by Kalki
- teddibly British" "She made mountaynes out of molehills" "...a nayce musical comedy..." "Irish? Who's he?" - The reader must read much further on to understand