Category:Comedy plays
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- This category is for the genre of dramatic works. For the popular meaning of the term "comedy", see Category:Humor.
The comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in Ancient Greece. Greeks and Romans confined the word "comedy" to descriptions of stage-plays with happy endings. In the Middle Ages, the genre expanded to include narrative poems with happy endings and a lighter tone. As time progressed, the word came more and more to be associated with any sort of performance intended to cause laughter.
Pages in category "Comedy plays"
The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
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- The School for Scandal
- A Series of Plays in which it is attempted to delineate The Stronger Passions of the Mind, Volume One/The Tryal
- A Series of Plays in which it is attempted to delineate The Stronger Passions of the Mind, Volume Three/The Siege
- A Series of Plays in which it is attempted to delineate The Stronger Passions of the Mind, Volume Two/The Election
- A Series of Plays in which it is attempted to delineate The Stronger Passions of the Mind, Volume Two/The Second Marriage
- She Stoops to Conquer
- Sleeping Beauty (Howard)
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- The Way of the World
- The Whole proceedings of Jockey and Maggy (1801)
- The whole proceedings of Jockey and Maggy (1839)
- The Whole proceedings of Jocky & Maggy's courtship with the great diversion that ensued at the wedding
- The Whole proceedings of Jocky & Maggy's courtship
- Winter's Tale (Shakespeare)