These plot twists could make Guilfoyle laugh or cry, which brings us back to Greek drama. As early as 600 BCE, the Greeks divided drama into comedy and tragedy. Tragedy focused on lost love ...

In Oliver Twist he wrote that, "All good murderous melodramas 'were constructed like streaky bacon 'the red and the white representing comedy and tragedy, fried up together 'complimenting each other." ...

Few could imagine a Greek tragedy as being funny. Egyptian playwright Ali Salim did just that with The Oedipus Comedy. By switching the location from the Greek city of Thebes, which had seven ...