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Playwrights to incorporate profound social or political issues into their comedies
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How far do you feel it is possible for playwrights to incorporate profound social or political issues into their comedies?
Sheridan’s The School for Scandal and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest are plays of society life set in the rarefied world of the upper classes. They are of the genre – Society Dramas and Comedy of Manners, and are frivolous light comedies facilitating freedom to comment on the more difficult social/political issues; for example, the sexual “double standard” and the problem of the “fallen woman”. Debates surround these two plays. Should they be taken on their merits as a delightful pieces of wonderful trivia or are they altogether darker plays, satirising the upper classes?
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