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Comedy of Humor:
- Comedy of humors, a dramatic genre most closely associated with the English playwright Ben Jonson from the late 16th century.
- The term derives from the Latin humor (more properly umor), meaning ''liquid,'' and its use in the medieval and Renaissance medical theory that the human body held a balance of four liquids, or humours: blood, phlegm, yellow bile (choler), and black bile (melancholy). When properly balanced, these humours were thought to give the individual a healthy mind in a healthy body.
According to this theory, there are four fluids in the human body which determine a man’s temperament and mental state. These four fluids are-
1. Blood,
2. Phlegm,
3. Choler (Yellow Bile); and
4. Melancholy (Black Bile)
A normal man has these four fluids in a balanced proportion. But this excess of any one of these fluids makes him abnormal and develops some kind of an oddity in temperament and behavior and hence such a person becomes an object of fun and ridicule.
Source: Britannica Encyclopedia & Live MCQ Lecture.