I shall identify fundamental differences, related to the different kinds of character ... which we see especially in tragedy, and laughter with, or embracing of, madness, which we experience in comedy ...

Comedy, like tragedy, is based upon misery, said Eric Bentley last night in the last of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures. "Psychologists know that a patient's vehement 'no' means 'yes,'" and in ...

Comedy: The first comedies were mainly satirical ... between the acts of tragedies and made fun of the plight of the tragedy's characters. The satyrs were mythical half-human, half-goat figures ...

"Sometimes comedy is really the only way forward through tragedy," says the comedian, who lost his father in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City (Screenshot of Pete Davidson From NBC's ...

Igor Golyak's "Merchant of Venice" asks, what if we treated the play like a comedy the way Shakespeare intended.

Comedy: The first comedies were mainly satirical ... between the acts of tragedies and made fun of the plight of the tragedy's characters. The satyrs were mythical half-human, half-goat figures ...