the comic

 

LITERARY TERMS

 

COMEDIE - COMEDIE-BALLET

COMEDY OF HUMOURS/INTRIGUE/MANNERS/MORALS

COMMEDIA DELL' ARTE COMMEDIA ERUDITA

BURLESQUE

BLACK HUMOUR

DRAWING-ROOM COMEDY DOMESTIC COMEDY

FARCE

HIGH COMEDY

MUSICAL COMEDY ROMANTIC COMEDY

SENTIMENTAL COMEDY TRAGI-COMEDY

THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD

FROM J.A.Cuddon, the Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory

Penguin London 1992[1977]