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www-britannica-com-6822		Comedy | literature and performance | Britannica			.html	text/html	1682	148	64	Comedy | literature and performance | Britannica In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find. https://www.britannica.com/art/comedy The classic conception of comedy, which began with Aristotle in ancient Greece of the 4th century bce and persists through the present, holds that it is primarily concerned with humans as social beings, rather than as private persons, and that its function is frankly corrective. The wellsprings of comedy are dealt with in the article humour. When tragedy and comedy arose, poets wrote one or the other, according to their natural bent. Comedy, on the other hand, confines itself to the imitation of nature, and, according to Fielding, the comic artist is not to be excused for deviating from it. Comedy of manners New Comedy By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.	./cache/www-britannica-com-6822.html	./txt/www-britannica-com-6822.txt