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Trivia about comedy

  • Melpomene is the muse of tragedy & her sister Thalia, of this
  • Dramatic form, from Greek for "merrymaking"
  • Royall Tyler created the flirtatious fop Billy Dimple in "The Contrast", the USA's first play of this type
  • Ancient Greeks might have asked if you heard the one about Thalia, the muse of this
  • Aristophanes' style is called "old" this; Menander's, less high-spirited, is "new "this