Comedy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...and Ben Jonson . Shakespeare, whose comedies ranged from the farcical to the tragicomic, was the master of the romantic comedy, while Jonson, whose drama was strongly...early to mid-19th cent., good comedy was again brought to the stage in the comedies of manners by Oscar Wilde and in the...began writing his subtle and delicate comedies of the dying Russian aristocracy. Twentieth-Century Comedy The 20th cent. has witnessed a number...