The comedy (of the Greek {{Greek old|κωμῳδία}}/ kōmōidía , by the Latin comoedia ) is an aiming literary Genre and theatrical, like the Tragédie, with to denounce the defects and the defects of the company.

It finds its origin in the Greek Littérature. The Greek word κωμῳδία ( kōmōidía ) is formed of the words κῶμος ( kỗmos , “festival in the honor of Dionysos”) and ἀοιδή / ᾠδή ( aoidḗ / ōidḗ , “song”).

It functions mainly on the laughter and the Humor what thus makes an entertainment of it contrary to the tragedy. As for the tragedy, the French traditional comedy could obey the Règle of the three units, its respect not being obligatory.

However, the comedy contrary seeks with désacraliser the situations sad or unpleasant to the tragedy which amplifies them.

It puts in scene characters who belong to the average categories of the company (according to the times and the cultures, one will find there mainly slaves, servants, tradesmen, middle-class man, but seldom of the noble ones, which are characters of tragedy), and whose adventures finish in a happy way.

With the illustrated direction, to make the comedy means to make cinema or to make manners for few things.

Today, the comedy is especially known by the more or less humorous cinema.

Various comedies

• ancient Greek Comedy
• Comedy of manners : base the comic one on the satire of contemporary manners, the features of the company.
• Comedy of character : play where are described in a pleasant way manners, the defects and the ridiculous ones of the human beings.
• Comedy-ballet : mixing theater and dance baroque.
• Light comedy : theater of pure entertainment. The boulevard has also a serious slope, of which the ambition is to act with force on the public, by proposing cruel intrigues to him.
• Musical comedy : sung musical theater.

See too

• comic Duet
• Comedy!, a French-speaking television channel
• the Comédie-Française and the Commedia dell'Arte of Paris

External bonds

• the theater: comic and tragic (page of the academy of Versailles)
• the Comedy

Simple: Comedy

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