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…showed last 75 words of 544 total…very similar despite the extreme difference in years between the two titles. This shows that comedy or at least the base for comedy has not changed much in over 100 years, yet society has in many extreme ways meaning that there must be a set of theatrical conventions that define comedy. Therefore one could not say comedy is a philosophy of life and still classify plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest as a comedy.