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Definition of Low comedy
1. Noun. A comedy characterized by slapstick and burlesque.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Low Comedy
Literary usage of Low comedy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"Akin to this taste for gossip is a certain proneness to sink into low comedy.
There is a fragment of Andocides, describing the influx of country-people into ..."
2. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1876)
"Akin to this taste {or Proneness gossip is a certain proneness to sink into low
comedy. S/^0"7 There is a fragment of ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"... in the provinces as an actor, went with his wife (Î.B.) in 1813 to Covent
Garden, where he " performed low-comedy characters of little importance. ..."
4. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1824)
"BUFFOONERY—BURLESQUE—low comedy. HE was a very subtle schoolman, who first said
that we owe the origin of the word buffoon to a little Athenian sacrificer ..."
5. Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq: Interspersed with Characters and by Thomas Davies (1818)
"... in London Lothario in Dublin Her chief stage excellence Stoops to parts in
low comedy Lady Pliant and Mrs. Day Colley Gibber her admirer, ..."
6. Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York by Abram Child Dayton (1896)
"CHAPTER X. Peter Richings—His singular versatility as an actor— John Fisher and
John Povey in low comedy—William Wheatley—Charles K. and John Mason arrive ..."
7. Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York by Abram Child Dayton (1897)
"CHAPTER X. Peter Richings—His singular versatility as an actor— John Fisher and
John Povey in low comedy—William Wheatley—Charles K. and John Mason arrive ..."
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