Satirical commentator, character

Germany, as responsible for the decline of the comedy (DS II 13). Disguise is sharply criticized. In short, the comic for its own sake, the visually comic, comedy of gesture and physical movement, all are repudiated. Since these elements had been particularly pronounced in the servants, it follows that the latter were now to become respectable characters, restricted to being vehicles for satiric comment or common-sense advice and, theoretically, forbidden the element of pure fun. 

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