Discover how satire, humor, and societal critique shaped Western theater in this insightful overview of the ancient Greek comedy.

The three genres of drama were comedy, satyr plays, and most important of all, tragedy. Comedy: The first comedies were mainly satirical and mocked men in power for their vanity and foolishness.

Drama was classified according to three different types or genres: comedy, tragedy and satyr plays ... is the oldest surviving of all Greek plays. His pupil, Sophocles went on to add a third ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University’s Theatre MSU opens its spring season with productions of “Medea” and “She ...

These plot twists could make Guilfoyle laugh or cry, which brings us back to Greek drama. As early as 600 BCE, the Greeks divided drama into comedy and tragedy. Tragedy focused on lost love ...

In Oliver Twist he wrote that, "All good murderous melodramas 'were constructed like streaky bacon 'the red and the white representing comedy and tragedy, fried up together 'complimenting each other." ...