Private Lives is an English comedy in three acts by Noel Coward.
The Greeks and Romans confined their use of the word "comedy" to descriptions of stage-plays with happy endings
== History ===== Western history ======= Dionysiac origins, Aristophanes and Aristotle ====Starting from 425 BCE, Aristophanes, a comic play and satirical author of the Ancient Greek Theater, wrote 40 comedies, 11 of which survive

