New Comedy

American  

noun

1. Greek comedy arising toward the end of the 4th century b.c. that employed stock characters and plots drawn from contemporary bourgeois life, the formulas of which were adopted by later Roman writers for the comic stage.

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Etymology

Origin of New Comedy

First recorded in 1840–50

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Example Sentences

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New Comedy

He has gone on to win both the BBC New Comedy Award and British Comedian of the Year, demonstrating the strength and mainstream appeal of the acts.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2023

Ridley, who won the BBC New Comedy award in 2014, is thought to be the first stand-up comedian in the UK to use a communication aid during his act.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2018

A Lucille Ball New Comedy Festival was held, but quickly fizzled in the early 1990s.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2012

There are also peculiarities of metre, such as the elision of -ai, which are unheard of in tragic dialogue but regular in the more conversational style of the New Comedy.

From Euripedes and His Age by Gilbert Murray

The best known writers of New Comedy were Philemon, Apollodorus, and Menander, only fragments of whose works have come down to us.

From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Frank Justus Miller

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