Comedy of Humours
Comedy of Humours
Comedy
of Humours :- The comedy of humours is a genre of
dramatic comedy that focuses on a character or range of characters, each of
whom exhibits two or more overriding traits or humours that dominates their
personality, desire and conduct. This comic technique may be found in
Aristophanes, but the English playwrights Ben Jonson and George Chapman popularize
the genre in the closing years of the sixteen century. In the later half of the
seventeenth century, it was combined with the comedy of manners in Restoration
comedy.
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