New Comedy
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New Comedy, term used to describe the last period of ancient Greek comic drama, which in the later 4th and 3rd centuries BC developed from the transitional
Middle Comedy. It later became the model and the quarry for Roman comedy, and so influenced later European comic dramatists, particularly
Molière. Its finest exponent was
Menander, who was immensely popular in antiquity but little more than a name in modern European literature until some of his work was discovered among papyri from Egypt. New comedy was pure comedy of manners. It used stock characters and conventional turns of plot; but these are treated, by Menander in particular, with a delicacy of feeling and observation which make a drama of great charm. The
chorus survives from the earlier type of comedy, but has nothing to do with the plot.
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Sweet sounds of success.(renovation of music halls across the United States)
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Music-Hall
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Canterbury Music-Hall
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
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music hall
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
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