___________ is called Father of Comedy.
Correct answer: C. Aristophanes
- A. Gibbon
- B. Bancroft
- C. Aristophanes
- D. Shaw
- E. Herodotus
Explanation
Aristophanes, the ancient Greek playwright, is traditionally called the Father of Comedy because his surviving plays established the importance of Old Comedy. George Bernard Shaw was a modern dramatist, not the classical originator of comedy.
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