Comedy is usually dramatic, literary work, mainly.
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 Elizabethan.
comedy drew in part on Latin comedy to produce the acrid.
satires of Ben Jonson and also the unforgettable romantic.
comedies of William Shakespeare. Moliere's great work in.
France blended comedia did and classical comedy. .
William congreve and William Loycherley created a.
reappearance of the witty, artificial comedy, after the.
Puritan suppression of the theater. This died at the end of.
the seventeenth century but then later revived in the.
eighteenth century with Oliver Goldsmith and R.B.
Sheridand. .
Oscar Wilde incarnated the late nineteenth century.
comedy of manner, G.B. show the comedy of ideas. The.
romantic fantasies of J.M. Barrie, Jean Giraudoux. The.
native Irish comedy of JM Synge and other, soon became.
the treads of the twentieth century: the absurd works of.
Samuel Beckett, and also including the so-called black.
comedy(the darkly humorous treatment of serious.
