melodrama, psychodrama, absurdism, bitchery, kinkiness, tragicomedy, phantasmagoria, picaresque, seductions, fantasias, carnality, grand guignol, tragi, seriocomedy, lechery, staginess, nabokovian, rawly, steaminess, demimonde, misanthropy, duologue, grotesquerie, lunkheaded, abjection, foppery, cuckoldry, grotesquery, anouilh, rumination, ruefulness, archness, pastiche, metafiction, knowingness, feydeau, androgyne, antiheroine, danse macabre, conceit, laclos, evocation, zestily, shavian, smarm, whimsicality, solipsist, voluptuary, melancholy, divertissement, poeticism, sapphic, elyot, catharses, tawdriness, potboiler, mundanity, dreaminess, shapelessness, zipless, homosocial, mise en scene, coda, plaintiveness, opera buffa, limning, neurasthenic, adventuress, wackily, sophoclean, fin de siecle, slyness, ghostliness, sordidness, sensualist, talky, marivaux, salaciousness, auteurism, impassivity, smarminess, noir, jamesian, romance, tearjerking, onanism, pensiveness, winsomeness, playlet, pathos, interweaving, priggishness, bohemianism, triteness, dostoyevskian, arioso, tale, gavotte, homoeroticism, narrative, sleaziness, affectless, song, carol, ditty, lays, lullaby, melody, ballad, songs, tune, waltzes, carols, chimes, lullabies, melodies, minuet, airs, bard, bower, hymn, jest