What is the typical social setting for a Comedy of Manners?
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Correct answer: Drawing rooms, coffee houses, and St. James's Park
The genre is urban and sophisticated, set in the places where the fashionable elite of London gathered to see and be seen. These settings emphasize the public nature of the 'manners' being satirized.
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