| Term | Definition |
|---|
| low comedy | a type of comedy that is quite physical, sometimes vulgar, and highly exaggerated in style and performance |
| farce | a humorous stage play marked by improbable situations and exaggerated behavior; an absurd or ridiculous event or situation; |
| burlesque | a theatrical entertainment of broad humor, featuring skits, songs, dances, and sometimes a striptease |
| parody | A humorous imitation of another, usually serious, work. It can take any fixed or open form, because parodists imitate the tone, language and shape of the original form in order to deflate the subject matter, making the original work seem absurd. |
| high comedy | a sophisticated comedy often satirizing the upper class |
| comedy of manners | Form of comic drama that became popular in seventeenth-century France and the English Restoration, emphasizing a cultivated or sophisticated atmosphere and witty dialogue., deals with the vices and follies of the upper class, balancing satire and flattery |
| satire | The literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose or correct it. The object of satire is usually some human frailty; people; institutions, ideas and things are all fair game for satirists. Satire evokes attitudes of amusement, contempt, scorn or indignation toward its faulty subject in the hope of somehow improving it. See also Irony and Parody. |
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