Discuss
various types of comedy
The
word Comedy
is generally use for a kind of pray which ends happily. A genuine
comedy has the atmosphere of mirth with sparkling fun thought the play.
Comedies have been written sense time in memorial among the ancients Aristophanes,
Plautus and Terence were the master comedy inspire many followers.
Mender, Moliere, Shakespeare and Ben Johnson are the modern of comedy.
According to the different technique and things employed by the comedy
writers; comedies can roughly be divided into following types;
A Classical Comedy
Classical comedy is
rule bounds. It’s models are the classical writers like Plautus, Terence and
Aristophanes.
The most important rules are:
o
Observation of Three unities of Time, Place
and Action.
o
Thoroughly comic
inspirit.
o
Realism: It deals with the everyday
familiar like of ordinary people.
o
Its aim is corrective and satiric some
human folly weakness or social vice are exposed and ridiculed. The most
prominent writer of these types is Ben Johnson and Elizabethan Age.
Romantic Comedy
The Shakespearean is romantic inspire of national test and does not bother about
the rules of composition. There is free mixture mingling of the comic and the
tragic characters and the insider.
Example-
“A Mid Summer Night’s Dream”
-Shakespeare
Its aim
is not corrective or satiric but innocent, good natures laughter foliage are no doubt, exposed and redacted but the laughter is gender and sympathetic and
there is no moral indignation be lash with people and not at them. In Shakespearean comedy is intervention of supernatural characters like,
It
Titanic and Oberon in
“A midsummer
night’s dream”
The local is also sometimes imaginary like the “Forest of Arden”
The Comedy of Humors
Ben
Johnson comedy classical realistic and satirical is also called comedy of
humors. In this comedy each character is the representation of some “Humor’s
that some master passion which governs all his action. The characters are type
the local is familiar the purpose of the writer is to satires the fogies and
foibles. The weaknesses and vices of contemporary society the satire is
generally very brutal.
The Comedy of Manners
In the
restoration age, there nourished a new genre of comedy called “Comedy Of Manners”. The
comedy of manners are reflects the culture of the upper classes in which
manners are supreme. It a deal with the galleries intrigues and affection of
fashionable men and women, its plot is made of love intrigues. Its dialogues
and scene are sometimes immoral and induced this type of comedy became more
popular duty witty dialogues. The background of this comedy is generally
London, parks, trees, fashionable lady’s, drawing room or coffee house, Wycherley, catheterize were the pioneers and it
attend it’s perfection in the Handy of Congreve.
Farce
Farce is
law kind of comedy which seeks to provide boisterous lighter by the use of
observes characters, situation and dialogue. It is characterized by
degradation, extra dangers and there is much indeed that is mealy monsoons.
Many comedy writers have introduced these farcical elements in there
comedies to serve the groundings.
Tragic- Comedy or Dark Comedy
In such comedy tragic
or serious problem are presented in the beginning but in ends happily, the
ending is happy.
An
unhappy for others serious expects at the beginning created gloom in the
comedy, such comedy sometimes deal with the grave problems of morality like
“Shakespeare’s Measure for
Measure”
The
problem here: what is more important, purity of soul or body of comedy?
Other
example from Modern drama can be of Samuel’s
Bucket’s – “Waiting
for Godot”
Harold
Pinter’s- “The Birthday Party”
Conclusion
Thus, comedy is one of the generous dramas.
It deals with many factors like moral, satirical, entertainment, social etc.
The main aim of comedy is to make readers and society aware of its real sere
and meaning in literature.
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