comedy of manners: difficult plot telling names of characters motifs: exchange of lovers, the battle of the sexes, anti-heroic- rake, showing the process of the characters's reform, fortune hunting...
Comedy of manners is a comedy representing the current behaviour of fashionable society.
an example of comedy of manners is a play written bt Oscar Wilde entitled 'THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST''
It can be anything, but as long as it makes people laugh, it's a comedy. It has to also be amusing.
Either involvement, conflict, or compromise.