Category:Comedy plays


 * This category is for the genre of dramatic works. For the popular meaning of the term "comedy", see Category:Humor.

The comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in Ancient Greece. Greeks and Romans confined the word "comedy" to descriptions of stage-plays with happy endings. In the Middle Ages, the genre expanded to include narrative poems with happy endings and a lighter tone. As time progressed, the word came more and more to be associated with any sort of performance intended to cause laughter.