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definitions of comedy

  • In comedy: The human contradiction

    …“On Wit and Humour” in English Comic Writers (1819), “Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”

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  • In comedy: The role of wit

    …then, in his essay “On Wit and Humour” are very much in the classic tradition of comic criticism:

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