Sentence examples for classical comedy from inspiring English sources

Classical comedy, conversely, dramatized the everyday.

Le Menteur, indeed, stands in relation to French classical comedy much as Le Cid does to tragedy.

The growing importance of sentiment on the stage had proved as inimical to Classical comedy as to Classical tragedy.

They are character types more suited to Classical comedy in that they do not derive from the upper class.

Set in Gibraltar in the 1980s, Josie Rourke's production goes straight for the sitcom within this classical comedy.

Taking the ancient Roman dramatist Terence as their model, they produced not Portuguese characters but Romano-Italian types in a short-lived form of revived Classical comedy.

Some may be funnier than others, but all Jane Austen's novels are classical comedies: they are about young couples finding their way toward a festive conclusion, namely marriage.

Just before 1500, Italian amateur actors were performing classical comedies on stages with no decoration except for a row of curtained booths.

A Family Affair Classical Theatre Lab stages Alexander Ostrovsky's classic comedy about a greedy Russian merchant.

One of the critical texts we read was an essay by the esteemed Canadian critic Northrop Frye, who, in discussing classical stage comedy, distinguished between what he called "Old Comedy," typified in the works of Aristophanes, and the "New Comedy" of Menander, whose plays were produced almost a century later.

The second great Breslau work is Minna von Barnhelm (1767), which marks the birth of classical German comedy.