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... It is important to realize that comedy is not necessarily “funny”, at least in classical Athens, and tragedy is not necessarily “tragic”. ...
It is important to understand that drama began in the Greek world as a form of religious ritual; and although drama in classical Athens became a great day out and good entertainment, especially if there was a lot of blood and gore, its religious character was never really lost on the audience. Hence, the drama works out many of the characteristics all religious ritual works out: explaining the relation of the human to the divine, of the human to the material world, of explaining violence and its origins, and attempting to control the irrational and the material worlds.
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