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    Catch-22 and Tragedy

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    The Deft Touch of Catch 22: Heller’s Harmonious Unison of Comedy and Tragedy Since the dawn of literature and drama‚ comedy and tragedy have always been partitioned into separate genres. Certainly most tragedies had comedic moments‚ and even the zaniest comedies were at times serious. However‚ even the development of said tragicomedies left the division more or less intact. Integrating a total comedy and a total tragedy into a holistic union that not only preserved both features‚ but also

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    In Elizabethan comedies comic resolution is typically used as a device to address the problems faced by characters throughout the play‚ offering the audience their ‘happy ending’. As Alexander Leggatt states a comedy “... ends in resolution and order normally symbolised by marriage.” Resolution is used by Shakespeare in his comedies to reinstate social order after turning it on its head for the duration of the play. By definition a comedy can no be classified a comedy without certain aspects making

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    hardly be considered a comedy as there is no humour within it.” Do you agree? Discuss how at least one comic scene from the play be performed. Answer “As You like It” is definitely a romantic pastoral comedies that finally ends happily with a multiplicity of marriages. Though the play consumes melancholy moralizing issues it does not end with a tragedy; unlike Shakespeare’s other works. “As you like it” entails comedy elements that fall into the convention of comedy. It amplifies the common

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    Aristophanes (c.447-c.380 BC) was an ancient Athenian playwright and his plays are the extant example of Attic Old Comedy. He wrote during the Golden Age of Athens (c. 5th Century BC)‚ a period of political hegemony‚ and survived the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) among other events that shaped the social and political messages behind his plays. Regarded by many as the Father of Comedy‚ Aristophanes used a range of humor devices in his plays‚ such as Wasps (422 BC)‚ Frogs (405 BC)‚ to provide socio-political

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    Types of Drama

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    1. Types of Drama a. Comedy  When we talk about comedy‚ we usually refer to plays that are light in tone‚ and that typically have happy endings. The intent of a comedic play is to make the audience laugh. In modern theater‚ there are many different styles of comedy‚ ranging from realistic stories‚ where the humor is derived from real-life situations‚ to outrageous slapstick humor.  Is designed to be entertaining and humorous where misfortune ends in triumph or happiness. It presents characters

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    “Nothing that is so is so.” To what extent do you agree with this in relation to Shakespeare’s play “Twelfth Night”? In Shakespeare’s comedy ‘Twelfth Night’‚ the main theme of disguise and façade is used to create comedy as the characters ‘conceal’ themselves. This adds to the confusion and consequently the characters‚ and at times the audience‚ are doubtful of what is real. Shakespeare makes it clear that ‘Twelfth Night’ is up for interpretation through the use of his double title ‘what you will’;

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    cinema and eventually television‚ drama diversified so drastically that the different forms of drama vary an astonishing amount. But even within modern comedies‚ such as Bro’town‚ South Park and Blackadder‚ we still find elements of the Aristophanaic drama. Aristophanes and Shakespeare: Both Aristophanes and Shakespeare used conventions common to comedy to entertain the audience‚ and sometimes even used them to convey serious messages. Both were great fans of the Poneros‚ or loveable rogue: In Wasps

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    pretending to be Ernest asking Cecily to marry him and Gwendolyn who Jack asked to marry him as Earnest comes to the country; resolution – when both male characters have been discovered and identities revealed. Throughout the script Wilde created comedy using wit

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    Americans Became the Fattest People In the World. Boston‚ MA: Houghton Mifflin Co.‚ 2003. Dale‚ Alan S. Comedy Is a Man In Trouble : Slapstick In American Movies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press‚ 2000. Dobson‚ Louise. "What ’s Your Humor Style." Psychology Today 39.4 (2006): 74-77. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 7 Feb. 2011. Durgnat‚ Raymond. The Crazy Mirror: Hollywood Comedy and the American Image. London: Faber‚ 1969. Harmes‚ Joseph‚ and Karen S. Schneider. "Exit laughing

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    Kind “Let each man exercise the art he knows‚” The Wasps‚ 422 B.C. “Comedy is a great vehicle to get into the truth behind politics‚” Will Ferrell 2004. Aristophanes and Will Ferrell had strong political opinions and both used political satire in theatre to express their opinions. From the father of Old Comedy to a man who is known for his political impersonations over two-thousand years later; political satire is a form of comedy that has been‚ and still is‚ relevant. Aristophanes wrote plays

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