Types of comic characters

• These comic characters occurred in Greek comedy and were copied by the Roman playwrights Terence and Plautus, and in turn by Renaissance writers like Shakespeare.

• 1. The busy-body servant.

• 2. The angry old man

• 3. The gluttonous parasite.

• 4. The impudent cheat

• 5. The greedy procurer (pimp)

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