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• Comedy film — is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences. The comedy genre humorously exaggerate …   Wikipedia

• Comedy — This article is about a genre of dramatic works. For other uses, see Comedy (disambiguation). For the popular meaning of the term comedy , see Humour. Thalia, muse of comedy, holding a comic mask detail of “Muses Sarcophagus”, the nine Muses and… …   Wikipedia

• Comedy of manners — The comedy of manners is a genre of play/television/film which satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters, such as the miles gloriosus in ancient times, the fop and the rake during the… …   Wikipedia

• Comedy of remarriage — The comedy of remarriage is a subgenre of American cinematic comedy from the 1930s and 1940s. At the time, the Production Code (aka Hays Code) banned any explicit references to or attempts to justify adultery and illicit sex. The comedy of… …   Wikipedia

• comedy — Drama Dra ma (dr[aum] m[.a] or dr[=a] m[.a]; 277), n. [L. drama, Gr. dra^ma, fr. dra^n to do, act; cf. Lith. daryti.] 1. A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• comedy of manners — noun A comic work that satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters …   Wiktionary

• Colombian comedy — Colombian Comedy[1] is comedy made in Colombia or by Colombians outside of Colombia. Although Colombia does not have a tradition of comedy and comedians compared to other Spanish speaking countries such as Mexico or Spain, it still has important… …   Wikipedia

• Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy in popular culture — The life and works of Dante Alighieri, especially his masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, have been a source of inspiration for many artists for seven centuries. Some notable examples are listed below. Dante of Erminio Blotta, at Bd. Oroño, Rosario… …   Wikipedia

• Divine Comedy — The Divine Comedy redirects here. For other uses, see The Divine Comedy (disambiguation). La commedia redirects here. For other uses, see Commedia (disambiguation). Dante shown holding a copy of the Divine Comedy, next to the entrance to Hell,… …   Wikipedia

• Television comedy — had a presence from the earliest days of broadcasting. Among the earliest BBC television programmes in the 1930s was Starlight, which offered a series of guests from the music hall era singers and comedians amongst them. Similarly, many early… …   Wikipedia

• Divine Comedy, The — (Commedia)    by Dante Alighieri (1307–1321)    Italian poet DANTE ALIGHIERI’s Divine Comedy is one of the seminal works of Western culture and the unrivaled greatest literary text of the European Middle Ages. The poem is epic in scope, telling… …   Encyclopedia of medieval literature