The Comic Vision: Restoring the Balance True-False Write T if the statement is true or F if it is false. __t___ 1. Comedy as we know it arose in ancient Greece. __t___ 2. Many comedies are filled with tragic potential, and many tragedies contain potentially comic plots. __f___ 3. Comedy moves toward despair and death, while tragedy moves toward success and happiness. __t___ 4. In Old Comedy the plot was customarily fantastic and the dialogue, bawdy. __f___ 5. The braggart soldier character type was introduced in Old Comedy. __t___ 6. Roman comedy flourished largely through the translation and adaptation of Greek New Comedies. __t___ 7. Pantomimes and gladiatorial spectacles replaced comedy during the days of the Roman Empire. __t___ 8. Comedy was reestablished during the Renaissance. __t___ 9. English dramatists followed Roman conventions. __t__ 10. Comedies begin with social or personal problems. __t__ 11. Comedies often involve confusion, mistaken identity, coincidence, and misunderstanding. __f__ 12. In most comedies, initial problems are solved in a comic climax. __f__ 13. Comic characters are individual and heroic rather than common and representative. __f__ 14. Ironic comedy, realistic comedy, and comedy of the absurd usually have happy endings. __t__ 15. French neoclassical theater flourished in the seventeenth-century reign of Louis XIV. __t__ 16. An innovation in Moliere's theater was the use of footlights and large chandeliers. __t__ 17. Comic opera reached its high point in the nineteenth century with the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Matching Write the letter of the correct response. __m___1. Restoration comedy A. concerns an individual who is good at heart __e___2. romantic comedy B. full of physical humor and stage business __l___3. high comedy C. means "a song of revels" in Greek __b___4. low comedy D. extremely exaggerated form of farce E. high comedy built on a plot of intrigue __j___5. Lenaia F. obstruction to true love in Roman comedy __c___6. comedy G. attacks foolishness and / or viciousness H.five-act play that observes the __f___7. blocking agent unities of time, place, and action __h___8. regular play I. examines and satirizes attitudes and customs __i___9. comedy of manners J. ancient Greek religious festival held each January or February __g__10. satiric comedy K. broadly comic farce involving characters with consistent __n__11. farce names and characteristics L. witty, graceful, sophisticated __k__12. commedia dell'arte comedy that appeals to the intellect M. sophisticated seventeenth- __d__13. slapstick century English comedy of manners __a__14. sentimental comedy N. outlandish low comedy with silly characters and improbable happenings .