Dramas {comedy} can involve unimportant characters, have celebratory endings, emphasize variety, explore love's foibles, or have main character that succeeds or has luck. Aristophanes and others began Greek comedy using satire and fantasy {Old Comedy}. Second Greek-comedy period {Middle Comedy} was after Aristophanes. After -300, Menander, Plautus, and Terence were in last Greek-comedy phase {New Comedy}.
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