Sock and Buskin (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in Ancient Greece. In the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was remarkably influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters.The theatrical genre can be simply described as a dramatic performance which pits two societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict.