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Definition of High comedy
1. Noun. A sophisticated comedy; often satirizing genteel society.
Lexicographical Neighbors of High Comedy
Literary usage of High comedy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Development of Shakespeare As a Dramatist by George Pierce Baker (1907)
"high comedy rise into high comedy; and we shall often find comedies which range
from low to high if they have, as Shakespeare's have, two or more strands of ..."
2. Problems of the Playwright by Clayton Meeker Hamilton (1917)
"IX high comedy IN AMERICA No other type of drama is so rarely written in America
as that intelligently entertaining type which is variously known as High ..."
3. The Play of Today: Studies in Play-structure for the Student and the Theatre by Elizabeth Roxana Hunt (1913)
"... IX high comedy OB COMEDY OF MANNERS Illustrated by " Lady Windermere's Fan " BY
... high comedy ..."
4. The Theatre, the Drama, the Girls by George Jean Nathan (1921)
"§61 high comedy.—The stark poverty of American comedy is emphasized no more
clearly—and pitiably—than in the continued veneration at this late day of what ..."
5. Lives of Wits and Humourists by John Timbs (1862)
"FOOTE IN high comedy. Between 1754 and 1756, Foote did not confine himself to
his own pieces, in resuming his place as an actor. He added to his parts, ..."
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