TC 357: Comedy, Ancient and Modern
The Theory of Comedy: Some Terms

Generic terms

comedy
tragedy
melodrama
farce
romance
tragicomedy
comedy of manners
comedy of humors
Old Comedy
New Comedy

Ways of describing comedy's effects

carnivalesque
Saturnalian
wit
humor
irony
satire

Ways of describing comedy's characters

eiron
alazon
bomolochos
agroikos
blocking character
agelast
stock character
hero and heroine

Features of the comic plot

anagnorisis
reconciliation

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