Comedy_And_Tragedy

Comedy And Tragedy COMEDY... Comedy is usually dramatic, literary work, mainly 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 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 comedy, plays, tragedy, century, later, known, followed, william, romantic, play, france, form, everyman, during, drama, and/or, writting, writers, webster, vision, tragic, time, through, shakespear, samuel, renaissance, period, people, part, one, marlowe, lope, jm, jean, individual