Congreve Comedy of menace, as practiced by David Campton and Harold Pinter comédie larmoyante or 'tearful comedy', as practiced by Pierre-Claude Nivelle de...

Dramatishe Artistn (Federation of Yiddish Dramatic Actors) and later Dramă şi Comedie, was an international and mostly Yiddish-speaking theatre, one of the most...

the French playwright Molière having attended many performances of the comédie italienne, or commedia dell'arte. He is even referenced in a performance...

described as comedy-dramas. The term is a translation from the French "comédie dramatique". The portmanteau "dramedy" came to be in the 1980s. In January...

until the 1940s and 1950s, when productions by Jean-Louis Barrault and the Comédie-Française led a revival of interest in his works, at first in Paris and...

genesis a century earlier. In France, during the reign of Louis XIV, the Comédie-Italienne created a repertoire and delineated new masks and characters...

written by Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1830, and is part of his Comédie Humaine. Balzac, who began writing in 1819 while living alone in the rue...

Graces, an 18th-century fountain by Étienne d'Antoine in the Place de la Comédie, Montpellier, France The Three Graces (Indianapolis), a 19th- or 20th-century...

included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three...

were familiar with the historical personages portrayed and the political situation in Europe relating to the setting and action of the play. Scholars suggest...