Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
'The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
There's an art to comedy.
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
I don't see much comedy in the Bible, where people are writing about funny people. It's not there.