Types of Comedy

Question 1

Satire

Answer 1

An audience now may look at the way in which Victorian society was hypocritical with its double standards on behaviours for the more refined middle to upper social classes

Question 2

Comedy of Manners

Answer 2

The idea of the approved behaviours and how there are subverted in the play to a certain degree - this is seen in the behaviour of Lady Bracknell and her dubious morality about the death of Bunbury

Question 3

Wit and Repartee

Answer 3

The ideas of the intelligence of a character seen through the language they use. This is especially true in characters such as Algernon

Question 4

Farce

Answer 4

The idea of the diary and falling in love with a character before you have even met them is farcical

Question 5

Sentimental Comedy

Answer 5

The idea of the comedy that appeals to the emotions - with the idea of Jack being abandoned in a railway station (which is also farce)