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As Eric Bentley points out in his book The Life of the Drama, the opposite of tragedy is not comedy; it's Christian Science. What he means is that both comedy and tragedy are aware of mortality, of human limitation, of the potential for bad in the universe. They just deal with it in different ways. So it is not inherently a violation of the essence of comedy for it to acknowledge the existence of potential seriousness, as long as it eventually escapes the dangers.Posted by Hamlet on April 08, 1997 at 11:17:25
In Reply to "why potential tragedy in comedy?" posted by ck on April 08, 1997 at 05:57:28
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