Comedy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...George Bernard Shaw . In the late 1880s the great Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov began writing his subtle and delicate comedies...playwrights as James M. Barrie and Jean Giraudoux ; and the native Irish comedy of J. M. Synge , Lady Gregory , Sean OCasey , Brendan...unconventional comedy, containing both comic and tragic elements, of dramatists of the theater of the absurd such as Eugene Ionesco and Samuel...