at the heart of this play. To what extent do you agree? Comedy can be defined as ‘Popular entertainment composed of jokes‚ satire‚ or humorous performance’ and is said to expose ‘A humorous element of life or literature’.1 William Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ undoubtedly presents these common comedic traits and exploits them‚ primarily through the incorporation of foolishness within many aspects of the play‚ therefore conforming to comedy by that definition. However‚ within the play‚ arguably at
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10th Poetry : The Frog and the Nightingale Poet: Vikram Seth was born in Calcutta in 1952. He left India to study at Oxford where he earned degrees in philosophy‚ economics‚ and politics‚ and went on to study creative writing at Stanford and classical Chinese poetry in China at Nanjing University. His first novel‚ The Golden Gate‚ is written entirely in tetrameter sonnets‚ something that had never been done in the English language before. The Suitable Boy‚ his prose fiction debut‚ examined multigenerational
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In the article “How Bridesmaids Set the New Standard for Women in Comedy” published on the website The Artifice‚ the authors emphasizes how actresses in comedy are just as entertaining as men and can now make jokes that actors use to only make and women would stay away from. The article disects the film Bridesmaids and goes into detailed examples as to how actresssess in comedy are starting to break down the barrier of whats acceptable from women in film. The first type of joke the author(s) go
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Rom-coms The genre I have chosen for my film studies documentary is rom coms. I have chosen this genre because I enjoy watching them and it’s a type of film that interests me. Rom coms are usually light hearted and generally focus on romantic ideals. An example of this romantic ideal is true love overcoming all obstacles. The main feature is a love plot in which two sympathetic and well-matched lovers are united or reconciled. They are usually focused around a similar plot – two characters are
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Throughout history philosophers and scholars have widely debated the theory of comedy and laughter‚ the types of laughter and the reasons why we laugh. In his essay “Ontological Laughter: Comedy as Experimental Possibility Space” Timothy Morton‚ discusses his views on laughter and states that “comedy is the genre closes to the ontological structure of how things are” (332). Morton begins by proposing that “a thing is exactly what it is‚ yet never exactly as it appears” (Morton 322-323)‚ therefore
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scholars have been constantly publishing progressive works on environment. British Marxist critic Raymond Williams wrote a seminal critique of pastoral literature in 1973‚ The Country and the City. Another early eco-critical text is Joseph Meeker’s The Comedy of Survival (1974). Various other efforts are being made to save the environment such as the recently launched programs like Swachh Bharat Abhiyan‚ Namami Ganga project and others. Tripathi addresses this serious problem in The Immortals of Meluha
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as despite differences in cultures and time periods‚ humour has been and always will be introduced and accepted by the audience through a drunken‚ clumsy‚ crude character. In ancient Greece‚ this could be due to the fact that Aristotle said that comedy is "defined as an imitation of the actions of men worse than ourselves" and should be relatable to the "universal" so as to be recognized. The playwright uses Silenus’ character as his universal‚ recognizable figure that rebels agains expectations
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Television studies Comedy is and was all throughout the history of the human culture undoubtedly among the most popular genres in the entertainment industry overall and especially on the television since it has become one of the favorite recreation alternatives for the modern people. In television‚ the comedy has taken a solid place from the very beginning of the broadcasting. Probably‚ it is for this reason that with time‚ the forms‚ or types of the comedy have been multiplied and varied to the
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Shakespeare Can Be Funny Too! In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare‚ the Mechanical Bottom portrays character comedy whenever he is interacting with other people throughout the play. Character comedy is using a well known character‚ like Bottom‚ to create comedy. It is usually used to exaggerate a character’s features while showing the audience their personality. An example of this would be when Peter Quince‚ head of the Mechanicals‚ was giving out parts for the play that they were
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Parody: A spoof or send-up by satiric ironic imitations. Bathos: From the sublime to the ridiculous; producing a ludicrous end. EG: The courtship of Claudio and Hero being traditional and pleasant to then be victimised by misunderstanding and rumour and still ending up in marriage. Benedick and Beatrice’s quarreling also‚ ridiculously‚ ending in marriage. Satire: The use of irony or sarcasm in which human folly is held up to scorn or ridicule. EG: the way Benedick and Beatrices constant
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