Comedy of humours
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The comedy of humours is a genre of dramatic comedy that focuses on a character or range of characters, each of whom exhibits overriding traits or 'humours' that dominate their personality, desires an
The four 'humours' or temperaments (Clockwise from top right; choleric; melancholic; sanguine; phlegmatic).
Comedy of manners
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The comedy of manners is a genre that uses wit and intellectual dialogue to satirize the social behaviors, artificialities, and strict codes of a specific contemporary society. In this genre, the cent
Comedy of humours
…Chapman popularised the genre in the closing years of the sixteenth century. In the later half of the seventeenth century, it was combined with the comedy of manners in Restoration comedy. In Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour (acted 1598), which made this type of play popular, all the words and acts of Kitely are…
This sculpture represents Thalia, muse of comedy and Melpomene, muse of tragedy. Museo del Prado. Dates: the body was sculpted 130 - 150 A.D., the head was sculpted during the last third of the 17th century.
Mosaic showing theatrical masks of Tragedy and Comedy. Roman artwork, 2nd century CE.