The three genres of drama were comedy, satyr plays, and most important of all, tragedy. Comedy: The first comedies were mainly satirical and mocked men in power for their vanity and foolishness.

His play 'The Persians', first performed in 472 BC, is the oldest surviving of all Greek plays ... to three different types or genres: comedy, tragedy and satyr plays.

These plot twists could make Guilfoyle laugh or cry, which brings us back to Greek drama. As early as 600 BCE, the Greeks divided drama into comedy and tragedy. Tragedy focused on lost love ...

In Oliver Twist he wrote that, "All good murderous melodramas 'were constructed like streaky bacon 'the red and the white representing comedy and tragedy, fried up together 'complimenting each other." ...