英语词汇“middle comedy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Middle Comedy n. [compare classical Latin media comoedia, Hellenistic Greek κωμῳδία μέση] the second of the three phases into which ancient Greek comedy is customarily divided, in which boisterous social and political satire gives way to fictional plots and a focus on contemporary domestic life; (also) comedies belonging to this phase. Cf. Old Comedy n. at old adj. Compounds 4, New Comedy n. at new adj. and n. Compounds 2a.Considered to be the transition phase between Old Comedy and New Comedy, extending from the last works of Aristophanes to the first play of Menander.

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1662 J. Ogilby Entertainm. Charles II 78 Nay, not in the Poets of the Old, or Middle Comedy, some hundreds of Years after Homer.

1775 R. Cumberland Choleric Man p. xii This however is certain that the writers of the ancient or middle comedy made few, if any, approaches towards the pathetic.

1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 407/2 The distinctive feature of Old, as compared with Middle Comedy, is the parabasis.

1960 T. B. L. Webster (title) Monuments illustrating Old and Middle Comedy.

单词	middle comedy
释义	> as lemmas Middle Comedy Middle Comedy n. [compare classical Latin media comoedia, Hellenistic Greek κωμῳδία μέση] the second of the three phases into which ancient Greek comedy is customarily divided, in which boisterous social and political satire gives way to fictional plots and a focus on contemporary domestic life; (also) comedies belonging to this phase. Cf. Old Comedy n. at old adj. Compounds 4, New Comedy n. at new adj. and n. Compounds 2a.Considered to be the transition phase between Old Comedy and New Comedy, extending from the last works of Aristophanes to the first play of Menander. ΚΠ 1662 J. Ogilby Entertainm. Charles II 78 Nay, not in the Poets of the Old, or Middle Comedy, some hundreds of Years after Homer. 1775 R. Cumberland Choleric Man p. xii This however is certain that the writers of the ancient or middle comedy made few, if any, approaches towards the pathetic. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 407/2 The distinctive feature of Old, as compared with Middle Comedy, is the parabasis. 1960 T. B. L. Webster (title) Monuments illustrating Old and Middle Comedy. extracted from middleadj.n. < as lemmas
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