George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Comedy

• The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Intellectual, Comedy, Moral

• The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Drama, Light, Tragedy

• A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sex, Tragedy, Novelists

• Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Laughter, Theatre, Evening

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

• A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fun, Drama, Taken

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