Sentence examples for middle comedy which from inspiring English sources

Low comedy tends to register here as middle comedy, which isn't as much fun.

C. 408 BCE c. 330 BCE Antiphanes, (born c. 408 404 bc, Chios [Greek island near modern Turkey] or Rhodes [Greece] or Smyrna [now İzmir, Tur.] died c. 334 330 bc, Chios) prolific and influential Greek writer of Middle Comedy, which succeeded Old Comedy (known from the 5th-century plays of Aristophanes).

But Aristophanes belongs to the end of this phase, and, indeed, his last extant play, which has no choric element at all, may well be regarded as the only extant specimen of the short-lived Middle Comedy, which, before the end of the 4th century bce, was to be superseded in turn by the milder and more-realistic social satire of the New Comedy.

I picked "dark comedy," which was suitably middle-of-the-road.

Preoccupied with social themes, Middle Comedy represents a transition from Old Comedy, which presented literary, political, and philosophical commentary interspersed with scurrilous personal invective, to New Comedy, with its gently satiric observation of contemporary domestic life.

The cable channel ordered a 10-episode first season of the comedy, which stars Leary as Johnny Rock, a middle-aged singer who had a once-promising career but managed to blow it all through a combination of drinking, drugs and really poor interpersonal skills.

Instead, Playwrights will put on a new production of the five-character comedy, which zooms in on the adjacent backyards of two recovering addicts and their anxious middle-class neighbors.

"Still very much comedy about comedy, which is a rookie thing, but generally improved," said Blake.

"He moves between drama and comedy, which some find confusing.

It may have inaugurated the Middle Comedy.

It began to evolve through the transitional Middle Comedy to the style known as New Comedy, established about 320 bce, during the time of Alexander the Great.