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Definition of Comedies
1. comedy [n] - See also: comedy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comedies
Literary usage of Comedies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"Shakespeare's comedies, with an exception or two, exhibit no such centering ...
The interest of the comedies is in the kaleidoscopic groupings and changes ..."
2. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"CHAPTER IV SHAKESPEARE'S EARLIER comedies : INFLUENCE OF LYLY NOTHING is more
... The reason is that the comedies and comic scenes in Shakespeare are the ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"comedies Goldsmith in vain tried to stem the torrent by opposing a barrier of
low humour, ... His comedies turn on an extravagance of intrigue and disguise, ..."
4. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1823)
"The critics on our side of the Alps reproached the Italians for the Extempore
comedies; and Marmontel, in the Encyclopedic, rashly declared that the nation ..."
5. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1895)
"1605, one of the brightest, pleasantest, and best-planned of the comedies of this
period, is, like the work of Dekker, full of the movement of old London ..."
6. Plautus and Terence by William Lucas Collins (1873)
"THE comedies OF TERENCE. I.—THE MAID OF ANDROS. ' THE Maid of Andros ' — the
earliest in date of Terence's comedies with which we are acquainted— is ..."
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