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单词 new comedy
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New Comedy


noun

Greek comedy arising toward the end of the 4th century b.c. that employed stock characters and plots drawn from contemporary bourgeois life, the formulas of which were adopted by later Roman writers for the comic stage.
Compare Middle Comedy, Old Comedy.

Origin of New Comedy

First recorded in 1840–50

Words nearby New Comedy

New Church, New City, new-collar, Newcomb, Newcombe, New Comedy, Newcomen, newcomer, New Country, new covenant, new criticism
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