Exploring the words comedy in depth was the plan for today. Comedy, from the Greek means anything humorous or amusing. It is explained differently between film and theatre. In theatre it can simply be described as a dramatic performance, which pits two groups or characters against each other in an amusing conflict. The comedies were first documented in the Greek theatre, when the performed their political satires. And even then, the voting was severely influenced by these satires. A lot of comedy has elements of surprise, conflict, repetitiveness and the effect of opposite expectations. But there are many different genres of comedy. The satire, parody, screwball comedy, black comedy, scatological humor, race humor, comedy of manners and romantic comedies to name most of the genres of comedies. One could go so much more into depth of each type of different comedy listed here. But this shows how many more elements of story there are in many different types of genres.
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Erin, I would go a little further in your research of the word and concept. "Comedy" was originally used by the Greeks and Romans to describe any play that had a happy ending. The word has now become synonymous with something that is entirely humorous. It is interesting to think of the 4 genres of literature as defined by Aristotle (in his famous "Poetics"): Comedy, Tragedy, Epic, and Lyric. How does this compare to contemporary film genres?
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