Comedy
Comedy is a term used to describe a play or performing art which generally ends in a happy ending. Webster's Dictionary Comedy describes a drama or any work with a happy ending.It distinguishes from a problematic, tragic, or serious and is also defined as any comic or ludicrous incident or series of incidents.(262)The term is comedy also includes exaggerated forms of comic entertainment called farce and burlesque.(700) Its best form of work is described as humourous entertainment.(143)
Comedy developed from ancient Greek festivals in honor of Dionysus, the god of revelry. Greek comedy reached its highest development in the plays of Aristophanes.(700)
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