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  2. Category:Comedy plays - Wikipedia

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    Animal Magnetism (play) Anniversary Waltz (play) The Antipodes; Any Wednesday (play) The Apparition (play) Appearance Is Against Them; The Apprentice (play) Arias with a Twist; Art and Nature; The Artful Husband; The Artifice (play) As Long as They're Happy (play) As You Are (play) As You Find It; The Astrologer (play) The Attic, the Pearls and ...

  3. Black Comedy (play) - Wikipedia

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    Shaffer described the opening night of Black Comedy the performance as "a veritable detonation of human glee", and wrote of an audience member sobbing with laughter and calling out in pain. [1] The reviews were generally good. The Times said of the piece, "It may not be a milestone in the development of English drama, but it is a very funny ...

  4. List of extant ancient Greek and Roman plays - Wikipedia

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    Satyr plays feature mythological-heroic stories in a style of language similar to that of the tragedies, while sharing with comedy plots, titles, themes, characters, and happy endings. They feature a chorus of satyrs, with costumes that focus on the phallus, and use wordplay and sexual innuendos that do not occur in tragedy.

  5. Shakespearean comedy - Wikipedia

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    The Duel Scene from 'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare, William Powell Frith (1842). In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies; [1] and modern scholars recognise a fourth category, romance, to describe the specific types of comedy that appear in Shakespeare's later works.

  6. Category:Comedy-drama plays - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Comedy-drama plays" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.

  7. Comedy - Wikipedia

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    The Greeks and Romans confined their use of the word "comedy" to descriptions of stage-plays with happy endings. Aristotle defined comedy as an imitation of men worse than the average (where tragedy was an imitation of men better than the average). However, the characters portrayed in comedies were not worse than average in every way, only ...

  8. The Gods of Comedy - Wikipedia

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    The Gods of Comedy is a play by American playwright Ken Ludwig. It was first produced as a co-production between McCarter Theatre ( Emily Mann (director) , Artistic Director; Michael S. Rosenberg, Managing Director) and Old Globe Theatre ( Barry Edelstein , Artistic Director). [ 1 ]

  9. The Comedy of Errors - Wikipedia

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    The Comedy of Errors and The Tempest were the only two of Shakespeare's plays to comply with this standard. [ 6 ] Law professor Eric Heinze, however, argues that particularly notable in the play is a series of social relationships, which is in crisis as it sheds its feudal forms and confronts the market forces of early modern Europe.