Entertainment / Literature / Comedy Of Humors: A Renaissance drama in which numerous characters appear as the embodiment of stereotypical 'types' of people, each character having the physiological and behavioral traits associated with a specific humor in the human body. The majority of the cast consists of such stock characters. (See 'humors, bodily' for more information.) Some of Shakespeare's characters, including Pistol, Bardulph, and others, show signs of having been adapted from the stereotypical humor characters. In literature, a humor character was a type of flat character in whom a single passion predominated, this interpretation was especially popular in Elizabethan and other Renaissance literature. See also stock character.
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