| 单词 | genteel comedy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgenteel comedy genteel comedy n. Theatre a genre of comedy popular esp. in the 18th cent., based on manners, morals, sentiment, etc., rather than on physical humour or slapstick; a particular work in this genre; cf. low comedy n. 1. ΚΠ 1717 C. Bullock Per-juror 25 Spoil. Well, what are you for, Tragedy or Comedy? Clerk. O! Genteel Comedy! a soft Lover! or a Hero now! such as Alexander, Oroonoko, or Hannibal! 1811 Mod. Brit. Drama III. p. vi The Way to Keep Him, and the Suspicious Husband, are likewise genteel comedies; toward which species of composition the taste of the times, about the middle of the eighteenth century, seemed decidedly to incline. 2007 L. Trahair Comedy of Philos. 133 Genteel comedy is like Romantic comedy in contemporary cinema. It grew up alongside the extreme slapstick of the Sennett and Hal Roach studios. < as lemmas |
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