WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dante chose to call his poem a comedy (commedia in Italian) because it ends happily. The poem follows a pilgrim who journeys through the afterlife to salvation and a vision of God under the guidance of the souls of the Roman poet Virgil, Dante’s literary model, and his beloved Beatrice.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ben Jonson’s comedies are called Comedies of Humour because the principal characters in all the comedies are victims of one humour or the other.