drawing room comedy
- parlorFormal room for visitors
- wittyCleverly humorous
- banterPlayful, teasing exchange
- aristocraticOf hereditary nobility
- elegantGracefully refined, tasteful
Edwardian · manners · repartee · sophistication · highbrow · salon · society · satire · champagne · servants · affair · scandal · country house · Oscar Wilde · clever · droll · upper class · costume
- dramaTV drama, acting, television drama, drama school, playwright
- theatreBroadway, acting, theatre, stage, actor
- comedy termsjokes, puns, wit, sarcasm, irony
- high societygossip, socialites, socialite, aristocrats, aristocrat
- Stage RomanceRomeo and Juliet, balcony scene, love duet, romantic lead, leading lady
- Victorian humorGilbert and Sullivan, Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, The Importance of Being Earnest
theatrical genre/tone
drawing room comedytragedy
Disastrous or sorrowful event
Greek tragedy · melodrama · social realism · psychological drama
social setting/class
drawing room comedysocial realism
Unidealized portrayal of workers' lives
street theatre · agitprop · gritty realism · street theater · docudrama
comedic style
drawing room comedyslapstick
Exaggerated physical humor
farce · burlesque · physical comedy · slapstick comedy · screwball comedy