comedy series (English spelling)

Japanese: comédie sérieuse(英語表記)comedieserieuse
comedy series (English spelling)

…Clown Tragedy Satire Laughter [Tatsuji Iwabuchi]. …

From [Citizens' Theatre]

… The first person to consciously use the term drame bourgeois and theorize it was the Frenchman D. Diderot. In 1758, he published a comedy called “The Father of the Family” and an accompanying essay called “On the Art of Dramatic Art,” in which he argued that in addition to humorous comedies that focus on human flaws, there are “serious comedies” that focus on human virtues and duties, and that there are also tragedies that focus on the domestic misfortunes of ordinary people. According to the traditional classical division, this intermediate genre, which is neither comedy nor tragedy, is “serious drama” or bourgeois drama, and he argued that it should be written in prose. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "comédie sérieuse" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…道化悲劇風刺笑い【岩淵 達治】。。…

【市民劇】より

… 市民劇drame bourgeoisという言葉を初めて意識的に用いその理論づけを行ったのは,フランスのD.ディドロである。1758年に《一家の父》という喜劇を発表した彼はそれに添えて〈劇芸術について〉という論文を発表し,人間の欠陥を対象とする滑稽な喜劇のほかに,人間の美徳と義務を対象にする〈真面目な喜劇comédie sérieuse〉があり,また,悲劇にも普通人の家庭的不幸を対象とする悲劇があると考えた。従来の古典的な分け方からいうと喜劇でも悲劇でもないこの中間のジャンルが,ディドロによれば〈正劇drame〉もしくは市民劇であり,それは散文で書かれるべきだと主張した。…

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