Earlier comedies in the mode of romance tended to suppress this insight.
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His early comedies might have been taken to represent an unheard-of civility from the back of beyond.
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Three separate archival records identify a parlour as a venue for comedies.
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An extensive building account survives for the comedies of this year.
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If prose is the comedy's dominant medium, the work's very coherence and inventiveness is a poetic achievement of a high kind.
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His prodigious output includes nineteen tragedies, seventeen satires and six comedies.
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As indicated, the principal programmes comprise four distinct formats - legal procedurals, dramas, comedies and reality shows.
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The majority of the legal comedies which have appeared on television are comedies about the law.
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If he gave the three comedies we now choose to call 'mature' his most throwaway titles, they aren't throwaway plays.
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There are enough yawning gaps between our pretensions to social equality, equality before the law, freedom of all kinds, to motivate a million comedies.
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Your subscription series would be mostly comedies with a few classics, musicals, dramas, and other types of plays.
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The contagiousness of laughter is better known, and is the basis for the notorious laugh tracks on television situation comedies.
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Sure chick flicks, romantic comedies, and dramas are interesting, but nothing comes close to the exhilaration of a good - or oftentimes terrible - action movie.
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Your subscription series would have an equal number of dramas, comedies, classics, musicals, and other types of plays.
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Your subscription series would be mostly classics with a few musicals, dramas, comedies, and other types of plays.
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Collocationswithcomedy
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comedy album
They both appear on his 1982 self-titledcomedyalbum.
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comedy circuit
Their crumpled suits and awkward, stilted delivery style gave them a unique act on the international live comedy circuit.
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comedy club
He was one of the earliest famous alumni of thecomedyclub.
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