Tragedy is if I cut my finger. Comedy is if I walk into an open sewer and die. All tragedies are finish'd by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage. I can get all that at home. British writer and entertainer.
Farce is the essential theatre.
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means. Czech-born British dramatist. US film actor. The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music 2.