This dissertation presents dramatic comedy in the CE on the basis of the following premises: autonomy and freedom are the foundation of comedy and the comic; Hegel contrasts the contagious laughter and self-confidence of the ancients with the apathy and indifference of the moderns; the autonomy of Aristophane’s characters is tributary to the free spirit of Attic tragedy; the laughability of classical comedies crosses the Middle Ages to become repulsion in modern comedies. The question that moved this research concerns the role of comedy, or more precisely, the Form of the humoristic, in the dissolution of Art. The central objective was to understand the reasons that led Hegel to state that romantic comedies are nothing but burlesque imitations; that burlesque imitations are not expressions of Art; that the subjectivity of the humoristic is the end of comedy and the comic.
Key-words: Comedy, comic, humoristic, burlesque, Art.