aiming to amuse the audience. Comedy is the type of

drama which strives to entertain the viewer through

embarrassment, ridicule, or accidental incident that occur

pertaining to/of the charater(s), costumes, and institutions

or it might even be through a resolution of the embarasing

occurences thrown to you by the plot.

Greek fertility rites are where the roots of dramatic

comedy were started. Old fashioned comedy reached its

highest point in Aristophanes. Aristophanes was series of

scenes using farce (exaggerated comedy), dealing with

fantasy, humorous imitation (parody), and satire, then

ending with a final lyric celebration of the unity.

Comedy later changed in the fourth century BC,

this new comedy was more realistic and sometimes

romantic, it usually included less satirical and critical. The

following practitioners of comedy were Menander in

Athens, Plautus and Terence in Rome.

When the Middle Ages came around comedy survived

through comedy and also through the Italian Commedia

Dell’arte. During the Renaissance time period Elizab

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