May 4, 2023
"......'Comedy', which at the time was a term used for works in which the difficulties or challenges faced by the protagonist were resolved in a broadly happy ending (to contrast to the classical tragedies, which focused on loss and suffering)."
on Comedy & The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri from The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained, James Canton
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