comedy masks
Drama's paired emblems
Comedy masks are the paired theatrical masks—one laughing, one weeping—that symbolize drama, particularly the contrast between comedy and tragedy.
Derived from ancient Greek theater where actors wore exaggerated masks, they now appear as logos for theater programs, drama departments, and performing arts venues.
The masks are sometimes called the masks of Thalia and Melpomene, after the Greek muses of comedy and tragedy.
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- theaterVenue for live drama
- Greek theaterAncient outdoor performance venue
- dramaTheatrical art or turmoil
- GreekOf Athenian origin
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- theaterplays, stage, play, onstage, acting
- comedy propswhoopee cushion, clown nose, fake mustaches, nose glasses, slapstick
- theater historyGreek tragedy, vaudeville, William Shakespeare, Drury Lane, Christopher Marlowe
- performing arts in literaturebackstage drama, stage plays, musical theater, chorus line
- commedia dell'arteHarlequin, Pierrot, Scaramouche, stock characters, commedia
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Theatrical emblems showing grief
tragic mask · tragic drama · tragedies · dirges · lamentations
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