Comedy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...in the brilliantly scathing plays of Aristophanes , Old Comedy...mid-4th cent. b.c., the plays were more consciously literary...drama survived in medieval folk plays and festivals, in the Italian...farcical elements of miracle and morality plays. With the advent of the...