{"product_id":"the-comedy-of-manners-from-newell-w-sawyer-9781512806557","title":"The Comedy of Manners from Sheridan to Maugham","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the two centuries between the first performance of \u003ci\u003eThe School for Scandal\u003c\/i\u003e by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the outbreak of the First World War, the stage provided an accurate mirror of the changing mores of English society. \"High comedy,\" Newell W. Sawyer writes, \"views man as a social animal in the midst of his fellows, with customs, conventions, and traditions of his own devising, and prods him gently or mockingly, as he stands confounded by that which he has made.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe comedy of manners became, from its prototype, a dramatic category reflecting the life, thought, and manners of upper-class society, faithful to its traditions and philosophy, and as such offers an ideal medium for such a study as Professor Sawyer has here undertaken. The result is a book that is at once entertaining and serious, a study of two centuries of the British stage, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Newell W. Sawyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1512806552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781512806557\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/29\/1931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Newell W. Sawyer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088492605695,"sku":"9781512806557","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bf68834e-7920-483d-b6d4-67caf9144d97.jpg?v=1769105074","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-comedy-of-manners-from-newell-w-sawyer-9781512806557","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}