Comic Drama Forms

Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms.

Farce is a form of comedy that relies on amusing and highly implausible plots, stereotyped or exaggerated characters, physical humor and misunderstandings to entertain an audience.

High comedy is a term used to refer to a comedy that is marked by intelligence or sophistication.

Low comedy, or lowbrow humor, is a type of comedy that is a form of popular entertainment without any primary purpose other than to create laughter through boasting, boisterous jokes, drunkenness, scolding, fighting, buffoonery and other riotous activity.

Dark humor, also known as black comedy, black humor, bleak comedy, dark comedy, gallows humor or morbid humor is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss, aiming to provoke discomfort, serious thought, and amusement for their audience.

An extravaganza is a literary or musical work (often musical theatre) usually containing elements of Victorian burlesque, and pantomime, in a spectacular production and characterized by freedom of style and structure.

Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter.

kyōgen is a comic form, and its primary goal is to make its audience laugh

In 16th- and 17th-century Spanish drama, an entremes was a short, comic theatrical performance

The comedy-of-manners genre originated in the New Comedy period

It is usually a comic dramatization of the Book of Esther, the central text and narrative that describes what transpired on Purim

High burlesque refers to a burlesque imitation where a literary, elevated manner was applied to a commonplace or comically inappropriate subject matter.

a form of parody in which a well-known opera or piece of classical theatre or ballet is adapted into a broad comic play

Unlike Classical comedy, they were written in elegiac couplets