Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.

A comedy is any sort of performance intended to cause laughter or the emotions associated with laughter. For ancient Greeks and Romans a comedy was a stage-play with a happy ending. In the Middle Ages the term expanded to include narrative poems with happy endings and a lighter tone.

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