Thursday 13 June 2019

LET'S KNOW MORE ABOUT COMEDY



The comedy is a type of Drama characterised by romantic love, humour, pleasantry, light satire and cross love finally leading to a happy denouement. Though fortune may be unkind to some stage, all ends happily at last

The romantic comedy is basically a love comedy. There is usually a story of triangular love with two heroes and one heroine, or two heroines and one hero, but finally the play ends in happy marriage.

  A tragi-comedy is an artistic combination of both tragedy and comedy. It develops as a tragedy to the point of climax, and then takes a happy turn and finally ends into a happy denouement.

The conclusion of a comedy is called denouement. Here all the obstacles and tangles that came in the path of true love are resolved and the lovers get happily married.

The sentimental comedy developed as a reaction against the immoral comedies of the Restoration Age. These comedies replaced intrigues and foppish manners with pathetic heroines, distressing situations, sincere lovers and honest servants.

The comedy of Humours is a classical satirical comedy developed on the concept of four ‘’Humours”’ found in human physiology. The hero develops into a caricature or an eccentric figure due to the excess of any one of these Humours.

The comedy of Manners exhibited the artificial manners of the high class society of the Restoration Age. They largely displayed the intrigues, witty remarks, sparkling dialogues and verbal fencing between gentlemen and ladies.









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