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People Laugh Make People
963 wordsThe Three Stooges developed their own brand of comedy. They specialized in slapstick, and produced a number of comedies, which are now becoming recognized as classics. During their prime movie making years, the 1930 s and ' 40 s, the Three Stooges made great comedy movies. The Stooges currently hold the record for appearing in more movies than any other comedy team in history. The Three Stooges started their career as a trio in 1925 in a studio in California. They were all actors that wanted to ...
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Happy Ending Real Life
453 wordsPeoples lives in this world are full of the good and the bad; happiness and sadness, and through it all everyone decides their own destiny and fortune. In comedies, much of the story is predictable because comedies use the same fundamental characters and ideas. If these characteristics of comedies were applied in real life, the result would be very boring and dull. These qualities include always having a happy ending, stock characters, and fecundity of life. Many times in life, nothing will go t...
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Situation Comedy Dropped Mary Tyler Moore Shows
1,114 wordsA History of Comedy on Television: The history of comedy on television goes back many years. Through out this paper I will go through many shows that have had a heavy impact on television, and criticize why they had the success that they did. 1970: The situation comedy dropped to 24 this year. This season saw the premiere of a landmark sitcom, THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, breaking with the tradition of the single woman not being in the regular work force, nor being happy single. The variety show d...
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Stratford Grammar School 16 Th Century
1,666 wordsLet me tell you a story of two young lovers torn apart by the wrath of their parents oh, you " ve heard this one already? How about the story of the evil villain plotting to overthrow his king? Heard that one too? Surprisingly enough, these stories came into creation over two hundred years ago. The wonder lies not in the stories, but in the man behind them. William Shakespeare is really the defining icon for modern literature. Because of his plays, prose, and poems; the works of Shakespeare are ...
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George Girlfriends Parents Jerry And George Seinfeld
1,194 wordsWHY NOTHING IS INTERESTING? When one contemplates how the "show about nothing" could be so comical one starts to wonder just how nothing can provide such an interesting topic for the comedies of life. In life something is what people think about. People worry about details or they worry about the big picture. The little nothings that trouble people only for a single moment of a single day are quickly forgotten. Rather its a place to hide at work or a bad day with a coworker little nothings are s...
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Twelfth Night Good Deal
2,068 words... sts, the interest in the story is the logic of cause and effect, how a series of circumstances presents a logical sequence, each stage flowing logically and naturalistically out of the previous situation, as a result of decisions, motives, and so on quite similar to the logic of real life. In And then stories, by contrast, events simply follow one after the other, often without any clearly logical link between them (as in many childrens stories: This happened, and then this happened, and the...
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5 Th Century Bc 4 Th Century
1,186 wordsORIGINS OF ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA Theater was born in Attica, an Ionic region of Greece. It originated from the ceremonial orgies of Dionysos but soon enough its fields of interest spread to various myths along with historic facts. As ancient drama was an institution of Democracy, the great tragic poets Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides as well as the comedian Aristophanes elevated public debate and political criticism to a level of aesthetic achievement. Euripides and the ethologist Men andros, in t...
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Buster Keaton Prentice Hall
2,324 wordsBuster Keaton "No man can be a genius in slap shoes and a flat hat. " Buster Keaton. First of all one needs to remember that Joseph Frank (Buster) Keaton was born into a family of vaudevillians. Joseph, his father, did an eccentric dance act and his mother, Myra, danced and played the saxophone. He was the oldest of three siblings; he had one brother, Harry (Jingles), and a sister, Louise, both of whom would later appear with the rest of his family in some of his movie shorts. Buster joined his ...
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Late 19 Th Century Importance Of Being Earnest
2,204 wordsThe Birth of Feminism in the Victorian Comedies of Oscar Wilde Essayist, dramatist, novelist, and poet Oscar Wilde was better known for his scandalous lifestyle than his literary theories and their execution in his dramas. However, subsequent generations have regularly revived his delightful comedies of manners, and now it seems as though his work will survive his notoriety. Literary critics were often unenthusiastic, or even hostile, toward his works, finding them to be overly contrived or reck...
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Mistaken Identity Star Wars
1,206 wordsCharacteristics of Comedy There are many characteristics that make up a comedy. Characteristics such as mistaken identity, battle of the sexes, and jumping to conclusions are what set the comedic story apart from the tragedy. Within a comedy, no matter how much fault, and dismay may appear within the story, there always seems to be the classic ending of and they all lived happily ever after Comedies capture the viewer with a sense of compassion and love for the characters in the story. Each char...
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17 Th Century Jean Baptiste
1,558 wordsMoli? re, pseudonym of Moliere Moli? re Moli? re, pseudonym of JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN (1622 - 73), French dramatist, and one of the greatest of all writers of comedies. His universal comic types still delight audiences; his plays are often produced and have been much translated. Moli? re was born in Paris on January 15, 1622, the son of a wealthy tapestry maker. From an early age he was completely devoted to the theater. In 1643 he joined a theatrical company established by the B? paris, a famil...
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Lord Chamberlains Men Elizabethan Era
1,212 wordsEven after four centuries, the literary world remains to uphold Shakespeare as the greatest genius in British literature. While best known as a dramatist, Shakespeare was also a distinguished poet. Shakespeare's extraordinary gifts for complex poetic imagery, mixed metaphor, and intelligent puns, along with insight into human nature are the characteristics that created the legend he is today. The following essay will address how Shakespeare contributed to modern playwright, the point in time whe...
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Commedia Dell Double Meanings
755 wordsThe aim of this essay is to examine the drama elements used in " Faulty Towers" and to compare and contrast this British comedy with the Italian street theatre, Commedia Dell? arte. " Faulty Towers" episode " Kipper and the Corpse" uses many of the same comical devices as Commedia. This drama is based in a hotel and focuses on the misfortunes of the owners and the staff as they try to run this business. There are four main characters in the 1970? s British comedy. T...
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Aol Academic Assistance Aol Academic Assistance Center Dionysus
1,020 wordsZeus divine child relishes the happy life He loves peace who sheds happiness Peace who nurses admirable youths And gave of the rich and poor He hates those who do not do their best Day and wondrous night To live happily. Europe. Bacchai (416 426) To the Greeks, the festival was a crucial event that could not be missed. Religious festivals in honor of the god of wine and fertility, Dionysus, occurred twice a year in January/February and March/April. The festivals included fifth century comedies a...
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Race Class And Gender Men And Women
1,244 wordsGender, Class, And Race Stereotypes In American Gender, Class, And Race Stereotypes In American Television Gender, Class, and Race Stereotypes in American Television A Content Analysis Gender, class, and race stereotypes abound in contemporary society, much like they have done throughout human history. With the advent of television, however, stereotypical assumptions have become so pervasive, and so diffused, that some call for a serious and purposeful scrutiny of televisions contents. On the fo...
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Oedipus Rex Tragic Flaw
2,245 wordsTheater and drama in Ancient Greece took form in about 5 th century BCE, with the Sophocles, the great writer of tragedy. In his plays and those of the same genre, heroes and the ideals of life were depicted and glorified. It was believed that man should live for honor and fame, his action was courageous and glorious and his life would climax in a great and noble death. Originally, the hero s recognition was created by selfish behaviors and little thought of service to others. As the Greeks grew...
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Oedipus Rex Greek Tragedy
2,514 wordsThe History of Greek Theater Theater and drama in Ancient Greece took form in about 5 th century BCE, with the Sophocles, the great writer of tragedy. In his plays and those of the same genre, heroes and the ideals of life were depicted and glorified. It was believed that man should live for honor and fame, his action was courageous and glorious and his life would climax in a great and noble death. Originally, the hero? s recognition was created by selfish behaviors and little thought of service...
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Wes Craven Woody Allen
2,064 wordsAs a companion piece to the articles outlining the histories of the eight major film studios, this survey examines four relative newcomers to production: New Line, Orion, Miramax, and TriStar. They aren&# 39; t studios in the classic sense; none have their own big lots where their films are shot. However, they all produce original and important films as well as distribute independent and foreign works. They&# 39; re the new players in the brave new post-studio world of American film. NEW LINEThe...
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Shakespeare Period Plays
369 wordsShakespeare, William (The Poetry) Shakespeare would be well known for his poetry alone. His first published works were the narratives Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594). The love poem The Phoenix and the Turtle appeared in 1601. But his major achievement is the Sonnets (1609, written in the 1590 s). In them Shakespeare exercises his talent for compressing meaning, fully realized in his later work. Addressed (numbers 1 - 126) to the unidentified W. H. and (numbers 127 - 152) t...
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Midsummer Night Dream Shakespeare Comedies
271 wordsCOMEDYShakespearean Comedy Suzanne Kirby COMEDY IN SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare s comedies can be recognised in terms of plot, structure and characters. We can see that Shakespearean comedies follow the same structural pattern, a basic plot on which the play is based. For example, a key feature of all comedies is that they depend upon the resolution of their plots. However, Shakespeare s comedies are distinguishable, as some are classed as comic dramas and others as romantic comedies. In comic drama,...
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