Old Comedy
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Old Comedy
Old Comedy, the kind of comedy produced in Athens during the 5th century BCE, before the emergence of the New Comedy. Old Comedy is distinguished by its festive, farcical mood, by its lampooning of living persons in topical satire, and by its prominent use of a chorus in grotesque masks and costumes. Its leading exponent, and the only one whose plays have survived, was Aristophanes, author of The Clouds (423 BCE) and The Frogs (405 BCE).
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