Conventions In A Midsummer Night's Dream
Good afternoon my fellow comedians, Udari Munasinghe
If I walked into a high school assembly and started talking about Shakespearean comedy, many of us would start yawning within the first five minutes. (name), I saw that yawn. Hang in there class, don’t you dare close those eyes at me. Hmm, have you ever wondered why that is? I mean, 400 years ago, people would be literally racing to watch his plays. And FYI, Shakespeare's comedy uses conventions and devices to entertain audiences by communicating through language and acting. On the other side of history, modern comedy is a dynamic art that expands from dramedy to stand-up comedy. By comparing Shakespeare's witty …show more content…
Inflated ego and the fool are both revealed by Nick Bottom. For example, in Act One, Scene two, Bottom repeatedly exaggerates how he is “such a good actor” and thinks he can play all the roles, pshhh. Bottom is also ‘the fool’ in A Midsummer Night’s dream; this is shown by Bottoms language and hyperbole, this is legit him, “If I do it, let the audience look to their eyes, I will move storms” (1.2.20), huh, what a fool. Dramatic irony and pun is also employed, when Titania finds a new lover, an ass. “Ass” is another word for donkey or a foolish person, which perfectly described Bottom. Sorry... but Foolish characters don’t end there. It also applies to the Athenian lovers, where farce and dramatic irony have been used to create exaggerated characters in extreme situations. So yes, we can say that foolish characters were essential to creating the best of comedy, in the Elizabethan …show more content…
Comedy is used in this context by comedic devices such as farce, the fool and inflated go. In this episode, Phoebe attempts to teach Joey French, but every line he says, he says something completely different, “Je de floop flee”, yeah, something like that. So Joey, who is stereotyped as the stupid character, still thinks he is amazing at French, and he seems assured he will get the part, when really, he is speaking gibberish and rather blabbering, what a fool, ha. Farce is demonstrated to exaggerate Phoebe’s anger; this is shown when she shouts, “I have to go, before I put your head through a wall” (Season 10, Episode 16, Line 134). Thus, in modern comedies, foolish characters are still very important even after centuries from Shakespearean
If I walked into a high school assembly and started talking about Shakespearean comedy, many of us would start yawning within the first five minutes. (name), I saw that yawn. Hang in there class, don’t you dare close those eyes at me. Hmm, have you ever wondered why that is? I mean, 400 years ago, people would be literally racing to watch his plays. And FYI, Shakespeare's comedy uses conventions and devices to entertain audiences by communicating through language and acting. On the other side of history, modern comedy is a dynamic art that expands from dramedy to stand-up comedy. By comparing Shakespeare's witty …show more content…
Inflated ego and the fool are both revealed by Nick Bottom. For example, in Act One, Scene two, Bottom repeatedly exaggerates how he is “such a good actor” and thinks he can play all the roles, pshhh. Bottom is also ‘the fool’ in A Midsummer Night’s dream; this is shown by Bottoms language and hyperbole, this is legit him, “If I do it, let the audience look to their eyes, I will move storms” (1.2.20), huh, what a fool. Dramatic irony and pun is also employed, when Titania finds a new lover, an ass. “Ass” is another word for donkey or a foolish person, which perfectly described Bottom. Sorry... but Foolish characters don’t end there. It also applies to the Athenian lovers, where farce and dramatic irony have been used to create exaggerated characters in extreme situations. So yes, we can say that foolish characters were essential to creating the best of comedy, in the Elizabethan …show more content…
Comedy is used in this context by comedic devices such as farce, the fool and inflated go. In this episode, Phoebe attempts to teach Joey French, but every line he says, he says something completely different, “Je de floop flee”, yeah, something like that. So Joey, who is stereotyped as the stupid character, still thinks he is amazing at French, and he seems assured he will get the part, when really, he is speaking gibberish and rather blabbering, what a fool, ha. Farce is demonstrated to exaggerate Phoebe’s anger; this is shown when she shouts, “I have to go, before I put your head through a wall” (Season 10, Episode 16, Line 134). Thus, in modern comedies, foolish characters are still very important even after centuries from Shakespearean