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The comedy of humours is a genre of dramatic comedy that focuses on a character or range of characters, each of whom exhibits two or more overriding traits or 'humours' that dominates their personality, desires and conduct.
The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), controlled human health and emotion. People of all ages and cultures respond to humour.
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Comedy of humours, a dramatic genre most closely associated with the English playwright Ben Jonson from the late 16th century. The term derives from the Latin humor (more properly umor), meaning “liquid,” and its use in the medieval and Renaissance medical theory that the human body held a balance.
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Comedic genres. Comedy can be divided into multiple genres based on the source of humor, the method of delivery, and the context in which it is delivered. These classifications overlap, and most comedians can fit into multiple genres. For example, deadpan comics often fall into observational comedy, or into black comedy or blue comedy to ...
Comedy of humours, as practiced by Ben Jonson and George Chapman. Comedy of intrigue, as practiced by Niccolò Machiavelli and Lope de Vega. Comedy of manners, as practiced by Molière, William Wycherley and William Congreve. Comedy of menace, as practiced by David Campton and Harold Pinter.
This is a subseries on philosophy. In order to explore related topics, please visit navigation. v. t. e. Humorism, the humoral theory, or humoralism, is a system of medicine detailing a supposed makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Ancient Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers .
In English literature, the term comedy of manners (also anti-sentimental comedy) describes a genre of realistic, satirical comedy of the Restoration period (1660–1710) that questions and comments upon the manners and social conventions of a greatly sophisticated, artificial society.
