Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheridan
Wycherley
William Wycherley
Sir Noel Pierce Coward
Noel Coward
Coward
Burgess
Anthony Burgess
Waugh
Evelyn Arthur Saint John Waugh
Evelyn Waugh
P. G. Wodehouse
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Wodehouse
William Congreve
Congreve
Wilde
Benny Hill
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Alfred Hawthorne
Hill
macaroni
Trumbull
John Trumbull
Charlie Chaplin
vers de societe
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin
Chaplin
Lardner
James Branch Cabell
Ring Lardner
Ringgold Wilmer Lardner
Cabell
Robert Charles Benchley
niffy
Benchley
Robert Benchley
mannerpunk
vitreous
fantasy of manners
high comedy
humoristic
Philip Dormer Stanhope
Chesterfield
Fourth Earl of Chesterfield
Philip Stanhope
Yeats
Twainiana
William Butler Yeats
end-of-the-pier
commedia dell'arte
W. B. Yeats
Frans Hals
Hals
punchliney
Moliere
swagger
O'Casey
First Baron Macaulay
farce comedy
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Macaulay
Eric Blair
Rabelaisian
humour
Lord Macaulay
travesty
Samuel Beckett
Holmes
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair
Momus
George Orwell
farce
groovy
Sakiesque
vitreally
Sean O'Casey
Beckett
Dame Muriel Spark
Muriel Sarah Spark
Thomas Middleton
Lord Byron
Alfred Tennyson
Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm
First Baron Tennyson
Muriel Spark
ingenious
Middleton
Spark
Byron
Thurberian
Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Beerbohm