Humor and comedy

The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe. [su_divider]   The Pit and the Pendulum I WAS sick, sick unto death, with that long agony, and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me. The sentence,...

The Business Man by Edgar Allan Poe. [su_divider]   The Business Man Method is the soul of business. —OLD SAYING. I am a business man. I am a methodical man. Method is the thing, after all. But there are no people I more heartily despise than your eccentric fools who...

The Nice People by Henry Cuyler Bunner, who lived between August 3, 1855 and May 11, 1896. "They certainly are nice people," I assented to my wife's observation, using the colloquial phrase with a consciousness that it was anything but "nice" English, "and I'll bet that...

Esme by H.H. Munro (SAKI) [su_divider]   "All hunting stories are the same," said Clovis; "just as all Turf stories are the same, and all--" "My hunting story isn't a bit like any you've ever heard," said the Baroness. "It happened quite a while ago, when I was about...

In this article, you will understand the meaning of comedy in drama, and learn about the history of comedy. Find out the different types of comedy, and how comedy has developed. Comedy in drama involves making people laugh with funny jokes in order to entertain an...