Comedy and Tragicomedy
I. COMEDY
A. Characteristics of Comedy
1. Suspension of natural laws
2. Contrast between the social order and the individual
3. The comic premise
B. Techniques of Comedy
1. Verbal humor
2. Comedy of character
3. Plot complications
C. Forms of Comedy
1. Farce
2. BurlesquE
3. Satire
4. Domestic comedy
5. Comedy of manners
6. Comedy of ideas
II. TRAGICOMEDY
A. What is Tragicomedy?
B. Modern Tragicomedy
III. THEATER OF THE ABSURD
A. Absurdist Plots: Illogicality
B. Absurdist Language: Nonsense and Non Sequitur
C. Absurdist Characters: Existential Beings
IDENTIFY OR DEFINE
1. Slapstick
2. Comic premise
3. Malaprop
4. Pun
5. Epigram
6. Comedy of character
7. Farce
8. Burlesque
9. Satire
10. Domestic comedy
11. Comedy of manners
12. Comedy of ideas
13. Tragicomedy
14. Problem plays
15. Theater of the Absurd
16. Comedies of menace
17. Non sequitur
18. Existential viewpoint