Sunday, August 12, 2012

What are the differences between the terms "comedic" and "comic" in dramatic analysis?

This is one of those answers that has changed and become
muddled since it was first used by the Greeks.


Originally,
comedy was a noun and referred to the play itself. Comic was an adjective that typically
related to a person’s behaviour. Comic also came to mean a situation that was
unexpected, turned the entire story topsy turvy and became the basis for the comedy and
comedic action. In other words, comedy is a drama that has been turned upside
down.


There are many subgenres to comedy now such as the
comedy-drama, tragicomedy, etc.

No comments:

Post a Comment

How is Anne's goal of wanting "to go on living even after my death" fulfilled in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl?I didn't get how it was...

I think you are right! I don't believe that many of the Jews who were herded into the concentration camps actually understood the eno...