... 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 ... absurd works of Samuel Beckett, and also including the so-called black comedy(the darkly humorous treatment of serious situations and/or themes) of Sam Sheppard, David Malmet and many other comedy writers. The 20th century also saw the creations of such comedic forms, ... Vaudeville and comic...

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