Because of Dante's image-driven descriptions in "Divine Comedy", many artists have sought to illustrate his text through a wide variety of media. This essay will look at two outstanding examples of how Dante's words fed the creative...

From cross-dressing in Twelfth Night to magical storms in The Tempest; from deception in Much Ado to biting satire in The Alchemist, discover the beauty and complexity of Shakespearean and Renaissance comedies.

Aristophanes, often referred to as the Father of Comedy, wrote the world's earliest surviving comic dramas. Mark Robinson shares a brief history of Aristophanes.

This article introduces the characters, conventions, and historical context of Restoration comedy, and explores what the genre has to say about gender, courtship, and class.

A scanned copy of the 1897 publication Ten Little Comedies by Gertrude Smith, a book of children's stories.

Browse through a collection of pages on Dante focusing on the importance of his work, "The Divine Comedy".

This page from Bartelby.com provides a scholarly discussion of William Congreve's introduction of the comedy of manners in the 18th century.

This resource speaks of classical comedy mostly in reference to William Shakespeare. It tells of what Shakespeare probably studied in Grammar School, and the source for his play, Comedy of Errors.

The ideas contained in these teacher notes are intended to present a range of creative activities to assist the development of independent research. It is hoped they will reinforce work undertaken collaboratively in class and develop...

This TheatreHistory.com page talks about Greek and Roman tragedies. Includes links from within the text.

One of Shakespeare's early comedies, The Comedy of Errors, is a delightful comedy that is profiled in depth in this site. Read about the major characters, important quotations and themes.

The complete text of the poem "Contrast: A Comedy" by Royall Tyler.

The entire collection of Balzac's novels and short stories, translated to English, is available here in plain text format.

Conveniently divided into Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, this site allows one to read Dante's classic poem online, or download the text. Illustrations appear when the text is read online.

The complete text of Congreve's The Double-Dealer is available, formatted for online reading.

This summary of the Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors features a synopsis as well as commentary.

Familiar quotes compiled by John Bartlett from William Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors.

This ebook version of William Shakespeare's "Comedy Of Errors" has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.

Find out about Ned Harrigan and Tony Hart, a British musical duo, who brought musical comedies to the New York state.

Short discussion of John Heywood and his role in the development of English comedy. Includes some info on Heywood's plays.

Maintained by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library, this site offers the full text of Guy de Maupassant's "Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life" which includes 27 short stories. Also provided are...

Biographical information on Menander, ancient Greek dramatist and chief representative of the New Comedy genre.

This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "What can we learn from tragedy?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration...

For William Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It, this site is linked to lesson plans and teaching materials, articles, introductory and background resources and the like.