William Congreve’s “The Way of the World” is an important play of the Restoration period. The bargaining scene or the Proviso Scene in “The Way of the World” occurs in Act IV.
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The Way of the World as a Comedy of Manners | William Congreve
Comedy of manners refers to the kind of comedies that seized the theatre in England during the Restoration Period. A comedy of manners aims to depict the aristocratic or upper-class society at the same time also revealing what lies underneath the surface.