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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