–Define comedy of ideas and discuss Aristophanes lampoon of philosophical rhetoric and worse argument in The Clouds.

–Define social satire and discuss Boccaccio’s bawdy satire of corruption and hypocrisy in two or three stories in the Decameron.

–Define comedy of manners and discuss Molieres comic reflection on human honesty and inauthenticity in The Misanthrope.

–Define comedy of ideas and discuss Voltaire’s comic critique of philosophical optimism in a world of horrors in Candide.