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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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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‘Comedy‚ while delights in the events of a topsy-turvy world‚ is ultimately conservative’ To what extent is this true for the Shakespearean comedy you have studied? Comedy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is confined to the conservative oppression of women and contrived by the ironic licensed anarchist figure of Puck which while delights us with donkey kisses and lovers’ mishaps‚ are neatly portioned within a common structure of society‚ agreeing with the hypothesis. The play is driven by a logical
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poems are not merely entertaining stories of legendary or historical heroes; they summarize and express the nature or ideals of an entire nation at a significant or crucial point in its history. I have chosen for comparison the Odyssey‚ The Divine Comedy‚ and Paradise Lost. The Odyssey‚ attributed to Homer is about Odysseus‚ the king of Ithaca‚ who sailed with his army to take part in war against Troy. After ten years of war‚ victory is declared and the armies of Odysseus have sailed for home. As
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The Shield Project has you choose 4 things that describe you as a person‚ who you are. I choose a theatrical comedy mask‚ a great white shark‚ a plate of spaghetti‚ and a russian flag with a bear as well as a star. My first choice for the Shield Project was a theatrical comedy mask. I have always thought that i was funny‚ my family and friends can tell you otherwise. My friends tell me i have a gift of making situations less “awkward”. My second choice was a great white shark‚ my love for sharks
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Shakespearean comedy celebrates life as it demonstrates the hardships that the characters faced and how they overcame them. This shows the audience that they can also overcome the situations that they are facing as the audience could relate to the characters. This provided the audience with reassurance and a motive to remain positive‚ they know that their problems will be solved eventually. The comedy in this sense is celebrating life’s pain‚ harmony and ability to overcome. However‚ many comedies that
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Upon reading the first act of I’m Going A Comedy in One Act by Tristan Bernard I felt a whirlwind of different emotions. The main characters‚ Henri and Jeanne‚ are in the middle of a small disagreement. It seems as though Henri would like to go to the races alone but his wife would like to share his company. She doesn’t mind going to the races or even for a movie and then dinner‚ but her husband really wants to go to the races alone. Using the reader response approach to analyze the play I
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A Literal Review on Oppression: An One-act Comedy by Xilin Ding After having read the excellent one-act drama by Xilin Ding‚ I was amused by the humorous dialogue and plots. At the same time‚ I feel that there are some pent-up feelings I must talk about. This play uses a humorous way to express the agony of the playwright about the bitter experience of his friend who later died a nasty death. The topic of oppression and anti-oppression is supposed to be serious‚ but in this play‚ the playwright
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Iago rewrites Othello: “A play that begins as a romantic comedy‚ but which ends as a tragedy” Evaluate the relationship between tragedy and comedy in light of this comment” Written in 1604‚ Othello is one of Shakespeare’s most highly concentrated‚ tightly constructed tragedies‚ with no subplots and little humor to relieve the tension. Although he adapted the plot of his play from the sixteenth-century‚ Italian dramatist and novelist Giraldi Cinthio’s Gli Hecatommithi‚ Shakespeare related almost
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