Note 2 Aristotle distinguishes comedy and tragedy by saying that "one would make its personages worse, and the other better, than the men of the present day"; further, that comedy imitates one particular kind of fault, the ridiculous. (Poetics, trans. Ingram Bywater, 1448a, 1449a).

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Note from A Comparison between Laughing and Sentimental Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith