Comedy
Shakespearean Comedy: Main Features in Literature
Shakespeare has composed more number of comedies than tragedies among his thirty-seven plays.…
Shakespeare has composed more number of comedies than tragedies among his thirty-seven plays.…
New Comedy, being derived from the Latin adaptations by Plautus and Terence, is the fundament…
In about 200 BC, Bharat Muni, in his Natyasastra — the ancient work of dramatic theory, has d…
1. Aristophanes and Contemporaries The cradle of European comedy also rocked in the Mediterra…
What is Comedy? In the late Middle English period, comedy was meant for a genre of drama, als…
A Dithyramb was a choral hymn sung by fifty men or boys, under the leadership of an exarchon,…
Theatron In general, the theatron was where the audience of a Greek tragedy sat to view the p…
Skene Skene, (from Greek skçnç, ‘scene-building’), in ancient Greek theatre, is a building be…
Parodos Parode, also referred to as parodos and, in English, the entrance ode, is a term used…
Mythos is the term used by Aristotle in his Poetics (c. 335 BCE) for the plot of an Athenian …
Masks The Greek term for mask is persona and was a significant element in the worship of Dion…
Tragedy is a representation of a serious, complete action which has magnitude, in embellished…
In their formal and structural aspects, a Shakespearean tragedy was different from a Greek tr…
The concept ‘Shakespearean Tragedy’ becomes the most significant context of study among liter…