Difference between comedy of manners and comedy of humours?

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2026-07-17 04:00

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Comedy is the producer of laughter.it came in the literary field with "Ralph Roister Doister"which is written by Nicholas vdall.Attached with it the Roman dramatists Plautus and Terence in the third and second centuries BC developed The Comedy of Manners;and Ben Jonson developed The Comedy of Humours in the Neoclassical Age though it manifested first in the Elizabethan Age.The main difference between them is: the comedy of manners indicates the witty laughter which is produced by the ironic sentences of the people and comedy of humors which is produced by the physical appearances of the people.

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