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Essay-Greek "Old Comedy", "New Comedy" and Contemporary American Comedy

Essay-Greek "Old Comedy", "New Comedy" and Contemporary American Comedy

Q Essay Prompt: Considering the qualities of the two kinds of Comedy above--Old Comedy-more topical, about real people, satiric--New Comedy--plot based stories about love, fictional families and people, relationship obstacles, discuss and demonstrate through specific examples how contemporary American comedy is similar and/or different from Greek Old and New Comedy? Approx. 500 words

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Comedy is a genre that mainly is characterised by humour, satire , entertainment and makes the audience laugh. It often consists of dance and songs too. Old Comedy, which dates from Pericles' founding of democracy around 450 B.C., evolved from the crude jests of Dionysian who was the wine God and was subsequently given a political purpose, as we're seeing. These comedies