1) Absurdity 2) Amusing drama 3) Ball field 4) Broadway offering 5) Broadway specialty 6) Dante wrote a divine one 7) Divine or Human 8) Drama 9) Emmy category 10) Field for Fields 11) Film category 12) French word used in English 13) Funniness 14) Funny stuff 15) Hilarity 16) Humorous drama 17) Humour
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1) Drollery 2) Farce 3) Funniness 4) Humor 5) Joking 6) Melodrama 7) Play 8) Seriocomedy 9) Travesty
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- light and humorous drama with a happy ending
- a comic incident or series of incidents
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Comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía), in the contemporary meaning of the term, is any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or to amuse by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film and stand-up comedy. This sense of the term must be carefully distinguished from its academic one, namely the comic theatre, wh...
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[drama] A comedy is any sort of performance intended to cause laughter or the emotions associated with laughter. For ancient Greeks and Romans a comedy was a stage-play with a happy ending. In the Middle Ages, the term expanded to include narrative poems with happy endings and a lighter tone. In this sense Dante used the term in the title o...
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A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the better. In comedy, things work out happily in the end. Comic drama may be either romantic--characterized by a tone of tolerance and geniality--or satiric. Satiric works offer a darker vision of human nature, one that ridicules human folly. Shaw's Arms and the M...
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• (n.) A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy; -- opposed to tragedy.
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The primary characteristic of comedy, denotatively from Aristotle's `Poetics,` is that the protagonist survives. Of course, in more recent times, what was formerly considered the connotative meaning of comedy has come to prevail. In theatrical productions as well as film, comedy has come to mean any work that elicits laughter from the audience or p...
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type of drama or other art form the chief object of which, according to modern notions, is to amuse. It is contrasted on the one hand with tragedy ... [22 related articles]
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the genre of dramatic literature treating trivial material superficially or amusingly or showing serious and profound material in a light, familiar, or satirical manner. Example: 'The Devil and Billy Marshall,' a comedy by Shel Silverstein, 1m.
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Literary genre that aims to make its audience laugh. Drama, verse, and
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(from Greekkomos, 'songs of merrimakers')
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Com'e·dy noun ;
plural Comedies . [ French
comédie , Latin
comoedia , from Greek ...; ... a jovial festivity with music and dancing, a festal procession, an ode sung at this procession (perh. akin to ... village, English
home ) + ... to sing; for comedy was original...
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A play with a happy ending, intended to be funny, with a lot of misunderstandings between characters. At the end everything is solved (dénouement).
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Comedy is a dramatic composition of a light and amusing class, its characters being represented as in the circumstances or meeting with the incidents of ordinary life; distinguished from tragedy by its sprightliness, and the termination of its plot or intrigue being happy; and from farce by its greater refinement and moderation and by more of proba...
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a play that treats characters and situations in a humorous way. In Shakespeare’s time, a comedy was any play with a happy ending that typically told the story of a likable character’s rise to fortune. In ancient Greece, comedies dealt almost exclusively with contemporary figures and problems. Low comedy is physical rather than intellectual come...
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Comedy is a broad genre of film, television, and literature in which the goal is to make an audience laugh. It exists in every culture on earth (though the specifics of comedy can be very different from one culture to another), and has always been an extremely popular genre of storytelling.
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A dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion.
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a literary work which is intended to amuse, and which normally has a happy ending. The term is usually applied to drama, but it can also be used for other literary kinds. Like many literary terms (tragedy and epic being prominent examples), the term has its origin in ancient Greece, but Aristotle's discussion on comedy in his Poetics is believed to...
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noun light and humorous drama with a happy ending
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In Aristotle (Poetics), a play in which chief characters behave worse than men do in daily life, as contrasted with tragedy, where the main characters act more nobly. In Plato's Symposium, Socrates argues at the end that a writer of good comedies is able to write good tragedies. See Comic. Metaphysically, comedy in Hegel consists of regarding real....
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Literary genre that aims to make its audience laugh. Drama, verse, and prose can all have a comic aim. Stereotypically, comedy has a happy or amusing ending, as opposed to tragedy, but it can also embody a far subtler structure and purpose. Traditional comedy, like tragedy, has human weakness as its primary focus but, instead of being destroyed, in...
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Defined as a mode, comedy consists of materials selected and managed primarily to amuse us. Defined as a genre, comedy is characterized by plots leading to happy endings and by informal ('low') style. See the various theorists.
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a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion. · that branch of the drama which concerns itself with this form of composition. · the comic element of drama, of litera...
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a play designed to make the audience laugh. They often contain jokes, strange characters and bizarre situations.
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