Comedy vs Burlesque - What's the difference?
comedy | burlesque |
archaic Greece. a choric song of celebration or revel
ancient Greece. a light, amusing play with a happy ending
medieval Europe.'' a narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., ''The Divine Comedy )
(drama) A dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone
(drama) The genre of such works
entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance
the art of composing comedy
a humorous event
Parodical; parodic
* Addison
A derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody.
* Addison
* Dryden
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A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
* Burke
To make a parody of
* {{quote-news, 1988, February 5, Billie Lawless, Laying Down the Lawless, Chicago Reader
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To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
* Stillingfleet
As nouns the difference between comedy and burlesque
is that comedy is archaic Greece. a choric song of celebration or revel while burlesque is a derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody.As an adjective burlesque is
parodical; parodic.As a verb burlesque is
to make a burlesque parody of.comedy
English
Alternative forms
* comedie * (archaic) * (archaic)Noun
- Why would you be watching comedy when there are kids starving right now?
Antonyms
* drama * tragedyDerived terms
* comedic * comedically * comedy of errors * situation comedy, sitcom * comic * comedianburlesque
English
(wikipedia burlesque)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras.
Derived terms
* burlesquelyNoun
(en noun)- Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accoutrements of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people.
- The dull burlesque appeared with impudence, / And pleased by novelty in spite of sense.
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- Who is it that admires, and from the heart is attached to, national representative assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute?
Synonyms
* (parody) lampoon, travestyVerb
(burlesqu)citation
- They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule.