"comedy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Roman comedy and satire may seem tame to us; one wonders what it looked like in the eyes of Greek aristocrats.
- In Greek and Roman comedies, women were often portrayed as drunkards and more likely to indulge in vices while under wine's influence.
- Key plot elements are taken from two Roman comedies of Plautus.
- I quite enjoyed studying Roman comedy by Plautus - suprisingly funny.
- Many devices from Roman comedy and the pastoral genre also appear, such as sleeping potions and letters delivered to the wrong person.
- Stock characters in Roman comedy include:
- The productions are extraordinary too, for different reasons, featuring hammy turns in Greek and Roman comedy and the odd 18th-century drama, but they're always great fun.
- Pliny says dinner parties at his home were often enlivened by scenes from Roman comedy.
- Their writing later influenced Roman comedy, which in turn helped to produce the modern Comedy of Manners.
- But the representation of a Roman comedy, that, however, was a new and piquant pleasure, a surprise for the young queen.
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