Ian Lancashire
University of Toronto
for the Shakespeare Association of America
San Francisco 1999
Comdia, huius comdiæ. A comedie: a playe wherein common vices are noted in personages representyng them.
Agere comdiam. Vide AGO. To play a comedie.
Actores comdiarum. Quintil. The players of comedies.
Prisca comdia. Horat. Iocorum referta comdia. Cic.
Vetus comdia. Horat. wherein men were namely expressed
and noted.
In comdis placere. Cicer.
Comedia, a comedie, a merry play, an enterlude.
COMEDIA: {*}Comedia, f. a comedie, a play, an enterlude.
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