★ Comedy and Types of Comedy:
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1. What is comedy?
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★. Comedy is a literary genre and a type of
dramatic work that is amusing and
satirical in its tone, mostly having a
cheerful ending.
★. The motif of this dramatic work is triumph
over unpleasant circumstances by
creating comic effects, resulting in a
happy or successful conclusion.
★. Thus the purpose of comedy is to amuse
the audience.
★. Comedy has multiple subgenre depending
upon the source of the humor, context, in
which an author delivers dialogues, and
delivery methods, which include farce,
satire, and burlesque.
★. Tragedy is the another type of drama
which is opposite to comedy, as tragedy
deals with sorrowful and tragic events in a
story.
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2. Types of comedy: """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
≥≥ There are five types of comedy in literature:
♥ I. Romantic comedy
♥ II. Comedy of Humors
♥III. Comedy of Manner
♥IV. Sentimental Comedy
♥ V. Tragicomedy
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♥1 :: Romantic Comedy :
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★. Romantic comedy involves a theme of love
leading to a happy conclusion.
★. These are plays concerned with idealized
love affairs.
★. It is a fact that true love never runs
smoothly; however, love overcomes
difficulties and ends in a happy union.
★. We find romantic comedy in
Shakespearean plays and some
Elizabethan contemporaries.
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♥ 2 :: Comedy of Humors:
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★. The term humor derives from the Latin
word "humor", which means "liquid".
★. It comes from a theory that the human
body has four liquids, or humors, which
includes phlegm, blood, yellow bile, and
black bile . when human beings have a
balance of these humor in their bodies,
they remain healthy.
★. Ben Johnson is the first dramatist who
conceived and popularized this dramatic
genre during the late sixteen century.
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♥ 3 :: Comedy of Manner:
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★. The form of dramatic genre deals with
intrigues and relations of ladies and
gentlemen living in a sophisticated society.
★. This form relies upon high comedy,
derived from sparkle and wit of dialogues,
violations of social traditions, and good
manners,by nonsense characters like
jealous husband, wives, and foppish
dandies.
★. We find its use in Restoration dramatists,
particularly in the works of Wycherley and
Congreve.
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♥ 4 :: Sentimental Comedy :
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★. Sentimental drama contains both comedy
and sentimental tragedy .
★. It appears in literary circle due to reaction
of the middle class against obscenity and
indecency of Restoration Comedy of
Manner
★. This form, which incorporates scenes
with extreme emotions evoking excessive
pity, gained popularity among the middle
class audiences in the 18th century.
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♥ 5 :: Tragicomedy:
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★. The dramatic genre contain both tragic
and comedic elements.
★. It blends both elements to lighten the
overall mood of the play.
★. Often, tragicomedy is a serious play that
happily.
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