English Literature A-Level
Courtship and social codes
What Courtship and social codes means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The codes of manners staged in urban interiors, drawing rooms and country houses, which comedy scrutinises and which shape what counts as comic.
Topics that use Courtship and social codes
- Aspects of comedy (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Audience response and emotional effect
- Comic mood and tonal balance
- Comic versus tragic structure
- Complex plotting
- Courtship and desire
- Courtship and domestic life
- Discomfort contained rather than disastrous
- Discovery
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