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Comedy
Matched in: Term Comedy
Black comedy
Matched in: Term Black comedy
Black belt
a comedy that treats of morbid tragic gloomy or grotesque situations as a major element of the plot
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Comic
Relating to comedy as distinct from tragedy
Comical
Relating to comedy
Scaramouch
A personage in the old Italian comedy derived from Spain characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery hence a person of like characteristics a buffoon
Theatre
Theatre, a place kept for the public performance of stage-plays (see STAGE-PLAY), which expression includes 'every tragedy, comedy, farce, opera, burletta, interlude, pantomine, or other entertain-ment of the stage.' By the Theatres Act, 1843 (6 &
Stage-play
(see THEATRE), s. 23, that:- In this Act the word 'stage-play' shall be taken to include every tragedy, comedy, farce, opera, burletta, interlude, melodrama, pantomime, or other entertainment of the stage, or any part thereof: provided always,
Homo trium litterarum
Homo trium litterarum (a man of three letters, sc., f, u, r), employed in comedy by Plautus to denote the Latin word fur, a thief.
Simon pure
Genuine true real authentic a term alluding to the comedy character Simon Pure who is impersonated by another and is obliged to prove himself to be the ldquoreal
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Comedy - Law Dictionary Search Results
Comedy
Matched in: Term Comedy
Black comedy
Matched in: Term Black comedy
Black belt
a comedy that treats of morbid tragic gloomy or grotesque situations as a major element of the plot
Keep your definitions linked to case research
Comic
Relating to comedy as distinct from tragedy
Comical
Relating to comedy
Scaramouch
A personage in the old Italian comedy derived from Spain characterized by great boastfulness and poltroonery hence a person of like characteristics a buffoon
Theatre
Theatre, a place kept for the public performance of stage-plays (see STAGE-PLAY), which expression includes 'every tragedy, comedy, farce, opera, burletta, interlude, pantomine, or other entertain-ment of the stage.' By the Theatres Act, 1843 (6 &
Stage-play
(see THEATRE), s. 23, that:- In this Act the word 'stage-play' shall be taken to include every tragedy, comedy, farce, opera, burletta, interlude, melodrama, pantomime, or other entertainment of the stage, or any part thereof: provided always,
Homo trium litterarum
Homo trium litterarum (a man of three letters, sc., f, u, r), employed in comedy by Plautus to denote the Latin word fur, a thief.
Simon pure
Genuine true real authentic a term alluding to the comedy character Simon Pure who is impersonated by another and is obliged to prove himself to be the ldquoreal
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