Comedy is a drama of a light and amusing character, with a happy conclusion to its plot.
If the thing described be unknown to the reader, it requires the right word to place it before him; if it be common, still must the right word be found to set it apart from the thousand other objects of the same class.
At the end of the whole should be the strongest and the most comprehensive argument.
A more shamefulcomedy has never been enacted,” writes M.
The happy peasantry danced the national dances once more, and the streets of the city afforded a spectacle seldom seen off the stage of the luxurious musicalcomedy theatres of the pre-war era.
No copy of the comedy being in the manager's possession, an actor was despatched to a town not many miles distant for the necessary volume.
When Tobin's comedy of 'The Honeymoon' was produced, Harriet Mellon made a great hit in the character of Volante.
A Comedy presented before the Kings Maiesty at Cambridge.
Wisely consider'd, Trincalo; 'tis a fair prologue To the comedy ensuing.
There are two title-pages to this comedy in the year 1633, but they are both the same edition.
With the merry prankes of Moll Cut-Purse, Or, the humour of roaring: A Comedy full of honest mirth and wit.
This excellent old comedy seems to have been deservedly popular on its performance by two different companies at the Black Friars Theatre before 1618, and it was twice printed.
Besides the comedy by Middleton and Dekker [printed in the works of Middleton], John Day wrote "a book of the mad pranks of Merry Moll of the Bankside.
The original of that part of the comedy which relates to Ingen and the Lady Honour has not been found, and perhaps it was the invention of the poet.
A Comedy presented before the Kings Maiestie at Cambridge, the ninth of March, 1614.
This comedy is full of most palpable imitations of Shakespeare and others, but it is very pleasingly, and even elegantly, written in many parts.
In the evening Ampère read to us a comedy called 'Beatrix,' by a writer of some reputation, and a member of the Institut.
Rousseau, who spent there the autumn of 1746, as the guest of Madame Dupin, and wrote a comedy for its little theatre.
Jonson's famous comedy was first acted in 1598, "By the then Lord Chamberlain his servants.
At thirty-four he was heard of as the actor of Knowell in Ben Jonson's comedy of Every Man in his Humour[1] and he received the glowing encomium of Meres in Wits Treasury.
Thackeray was so much more advanced than Dickens that to read the one before the other was like going to a Robertson comedy or Shakespeare before you had seen a pantomime or the Moore and Burgess Minstrels.
The rough edges were being smoothed down and he was always so simple and unaffected that it was hardly possible for liberal-minded men whom fortune had given a place in the stalls at the human comedy to refrain from liking him.
Martha By-the-Day An optimisticcomedy in 3 acts, by Julie M.
Seventeen A comedyof youth, in 4 acts, by Booth Tarkington.
To the Ladies A hilariouscomedy in 3 acts, by George S.
The New York critics described it as the most ingenious and amusing comedy of the season, genuinely funny.
Miss Lippmann has herself adapted her successful book for the stage and has selected from her novel the most telling incidents, infectious comedy and homely sentiment for the play, and the result is thoroughly delightful.
The Charm School Comedy in 3 acts by Alice Duer Miller and Robert Milton.
Three Live Ghosts Comedy in 3 acts by Frederick Isham and Max Marcin.
On the Hiring Line Comedy in 3 acts, by Harvey O'Higgins and Harriet Ford.
The bet he made with his business partners, and the trouble he got into is the subject of William Collier's tremendous comedy hit.
I should like to suggest that even in the musical-comedy line I am still able to scent novelty, whenever the slightest aroma occurs.
I had not been in London very long before I found myself battling with the musical comedy whirlpool.
My system being impoverished and quite run down by a strenuous musical-comedy dose in New York, I was not in the state of mind to render the continued ordeal endurable.
He says: "Were musical comedy other than it is, the highest intellects in the land would be deprived of an incomparable safety valve.
Many plays of the same slight artistic value have succeeded because one actor has seemed to give a new wrinkle in comedy to the public.
Of course musical comedy might be made a vehicle for keen satire, for delicate humor, for gracious lyricism, and what not.
There are four musical-comedy productions in London that a sheer sense of duty compelled me to see.
He writes with such verve on topics of which he is avowedly ignorant, for at the beginning of his defense, he says: "Nor do I ever see a musical comedy of my own accord.
It has pretty music, clever words and much "catchiness," and it is so admirably and artistically sung that it redeemed the musical comedy itself, and made it quite endurable.
He brought comedy into close relation with every-day life; he is the father of the modern French stage, which has gradually cast off the old conventional personages.
The "Gambler" is admirably done; but it is the onlycomedy in which Regnard attempted character.
The action of the comedy does not lag or limp from the opening scene to Valere's last words.
As it was, it was comedy for me, but rather cruel tragedy for him.
In trying to conquer, as it were, these imaginary monsters, they have sometimes swarmed and gibbered around me in a mad comedy which travestied their tragic sway over those who believed in their reality.
Is that a comedy they are acting yonder,' said Walpole, 'or is it a proverb?
There was an opera of his partly finished; a five-act comedy almost ready for the stage; a half-executed group he had left in some studio in Rome, showed what he might have done in sculpture.
I made a rapid review of the situation, and found myself much in the same position as an actor of the improvised comedy of the Italians, who is greeted by the hisses of the gods if he stops short a moment.
The two performers in the comedy alone were not laughing, and their serious countenance added to the fun of the performance.
Well, those who were in the secret of that domestic comedy laughed, as a matter of course, and it did not prevent the earth from moving according to the laws of gravitation.
I played my part in the comedy I had sketched out to perfection.
However, your excellent comedy renders you worthy of adoration.
I was the author of the comedy which promised such a happy ending.
In the meantime she accepted an offer for the Ancona Theatre, and Petronio took the part of first female dancer; in this way we played the comedy of 'The World Turned Upside Down.
To you, my dear, the honour of this comedy belongs.
Two years before her death I saw her perform the character of Marianne in the comedy of Marivaux, and in spite of her age and declining health the illusion was complete.
Altogether the opera pleased me, but the French comedy captivated me.
But a most unexpected circumstance prevented our attending the ball, and brought forth a comedy with a truly tragic turn.
You have been playing the comedy in the French fashion, when you ought to have gone straight to the point.
He played this form of comedy with the same supreme perfection that he displayed in the tragedy of Hamlet.
To become a true writer of comedyneeds discipline as well as a knowledge of the world, Dick, and discipline is sometimes galling, my friend.
The comedy of the duel has never been rightly dealt with.
That is the wittiest turning of satire into comedy I have ever known," she cried.
At any rate, I believe in your powers, Dick, if they are but allowed scope, and I have posted hither with the idea I have formed of the comedy which you are to write for me without delay.
I am no astrologer, but I dare swear that Mr. Cumberland's new comedy will be damned," said Walpole.
Well, sir, there is no discipline equal to that of one's daily life for a man who aspires to write a comedy dealing with the follies of the time.
She mixes up comedy and tragedy in such a tangle that her own shears alone can restore the symmetry of the piece.
Goldsmith had to tell her that he had received a letter from Mr. Colman in which he had promised to put his new comedy in rehearsal immediately.
The Comedy of a Suburban Chapel By the Author of "A Modern Judas.
The same actors who to-day appear in tragedy, must to-morrow show themselves in a comedy or vaudeville.
Over there in the gray house, at the corner of the market, he is acting his comedy in the gateway.
This was the comedy by Thomas Holcroft, Lamb's friend, the failure of which occurred a few nights before that of "Mr. H.
He has carried out Congreve's method to a still higher power, and imagined a land peopled wholly by cuckolds--a reductio ad absurdum of the old English and modern French comedy theory of society.
It is like what we can imagine a mask of the old Grecian Comedy to have been, only that it lives, and breathes, and changes.
The writer doubtless had in his mind the entertaining character of Sable, in Steele's excellent comedy of the Funeral.
A New Way to Pay Old Debts," published 1632, is a comedy by Massinger, in which Sir Giles Overreach is the leading character.
The young Queen gave a splendid ball in honour of her august mother-in-law; and on the morrow the Jesuits performed a comedy at which all the Court were present.
The two Queens occupied the same carriage, and were lavish in their expressions of mutual regard and goodwill; but the comedy was imperfectly acted on both sides, although neither affected to doubt the sincerity of the other.
While for his devotees he lay still warm in the earth, that other, the woman, poor Clotilde, astonished her compatriots by passing comedy and tragic comedywith the gift of her hand to the hand which had slain Alvan.
A comedyintended to display the evil consequences of dicing and card-playing was performed before the Emperor Maximilian II at Vienna, on New Year's Day, 1570.
The Divine Comedy is indeed as true an epic as the AEneid, and Dante is as real a classic as Vergil.
But there again, as in the comedy of hatred you mean to play for Monsieur de l'Estorade's benefit, you need moderation.
They bring upon the scene many persons already well-known in the Comedy of Human Life, and they reveal a vast number of facts necessary to the understanding and development of the present drama.
There is no little town in France where, at a given time, the drama or the comedy of the stranger is not played.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "comedy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
