What are the names of the masks used to symbolize drama - comedy and tragedy?

THE JANUS MASKS





';The Screen Actors Guild Awards trophy (';The Actor';) is a sculpture of a bare-chested thespian holding the Janus masks of comedy and tragedy';





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History:





Masks played an important role in Greek drama. They gave the actors the ability to easily play more than one character in succession with a simple change of mask. They conveyed a kind of static emotion that must have created an atmosphere very different than our modern theater. The masks and dress


were usually highly stylized and exaggerated making the characters easy to identify even from a great distance.What are the names of the masks used to symbolize drama - comedy and tragedy?
I think your thinking of just the two masks


tragedy and comedy ... you really answered your own question.What are the names of the masks used to symbolize drama - comedy and tragedy?
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You are correct. It is comedy and tragedy

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