Key words: dramaturgy, comedy, literature, writer, symbol.
R.B. Ehmedova
Comedy genre and ıts development hıstory
Summary
The article examines the comedy genre and its development history. During this research,
the opinions of a number of theorists in both world literature and Azerbaijani literature were
referred to and analyzed. It has been established that comedy has a very ancient history as one
of the main genres of dramaturgy, it was one of the working genres in every era and many
artists used this genre. Aristophanes founded the comedy genre, which criticizes the vices of
society through laughter. The article also provides information about the emergence of
comedy in Azerbaijani literature. Thus, research was conducted on the issues raised in the
article.
