ABSTRACT
Comedy prompts behavior, such as laughing at the buffoons in the comedic play, that once released in the context of the comic theater, are hard to clamp down on when the spectator exits the theater and continues with his daily life. Through the character of Socrates, Plato then raises several central concerns about comedy: first, there is a concern about the basic emotions that comedy inspires in a person who jokes: comedy prompts scorn, disdain, malice, envy, and an excess of bad temper. While Aristotle's comments in the poetics about comedy are limited in number, will start by briefly reviewing his key ideas. Aristotle does not mention Plato's ideas on comedy in the text of the poetics that have, some scholars think that Aristotle's account of comedy builds upon Plato. In spite of the similarities between epic and tragedy, there is an uncertainty as to whether epic and tragedy inspire the same emotional response in the audience.
