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Modernistic Aspects In Kiplings A Wayside Comedy
1,010 wordsRudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India. He was sent to England to go to school and returned to India in 1882. He worked as a journalist in Lahore for the Civil and Military Gazette. He also worked on Pioneer in Allahabad later (web). Kipling returned to England in 1889 and met his wife, Carrie Balestier. They moved to the United States in the mid- 1890 s where he wrote many of his poems. They returned to England in 1896 (web). Kipling began to be regarded as? the People?...
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Midsummer Night Dream Measure For Measure
3,147 words... nilly and made investments in his native Stratford, assembling a comfortable life and a solid estate. Finally in 1599, he became part owner in the most prestigious public playhouse in London, the Globe. The Works. Shakespeare's early works, to mid- 1594, can be divided into four groups: 1. The Classical plays: his first works which were heavily influenced by the classical examples he had learned as a student. Plautus served as the model for The Comedy of Errors, Seneca for Titus Andronicus. ...
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Men And Women Slave Masters
1,885 wordsLangston Hughes says, "Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. Of course, you laugh by proxy. You " re really laughing at the other guy lacks, not your own. That's what makes it funny-The fact that you don't know you are laughing at yourself. Humor is when the joke is on you but hits the other fellow first-Because it boomerangs. Humor is what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your unconscious therapy" Laughter for c...
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Jerry Seinfeld Family Values
1,035 words... only new show, THE 1 / 2 HOUR 1984 - 85: Twenty shows were canceled this season, including ten of the thirteen new shows. Only KATE & ALLIE and NIGHT COURT and one other survived, leaving only 25 on the air. The one other was THE COSBY SHOW, starring Bill Cosby. THE COSBY SHOW immediately shot to the top of the ratings, a position it continued to maintain. The rumor was that the situation comedy was dead, that the audience didn't want it anymore. THE COSBY SHOW, as well as the rest of the NB...
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Stage Directions God Apollo
1,923 wordsAlcestis is a myth that is "the most touching of all the Greek dramas to a modern audience" (Lind 213). It is a tragicomedy by the playwright Euripides and it centers on the king and queen of Thessalia. Admetus, the king, has been fated to die yet, due to his alliance with Apollo, is given the chance to find a replacement. His wife, Alcestis, volunteers for the position claiming that she cannot imagine life without her husband. After Alcestis submits her life, Admetus discovers the pain of loss ...
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The Rebirth Of American Musical Theatre
1,611 words... oma! had proved, on opening night, a stunning stage experience such as one does not often encounter in a lifetime of play going. From the moment the curtain rose and the first lines of the first song were sung, down to the final scene with the presentation of the title number, the audience sat spellbound as a new kind of stage art unfolded with incomparable beauty and majesty. (181) Along with dance and villains, Rodgers and Hammerstein also took on a new approach to forming the music that t...
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Merchant Of Venice Love And Friendship
1,655 wordsWe can trace the origin of Comedy to Dionysius- the Greek God of Wine who was hilarious, satirical and irreverent in spirit. Ben Jonson in Volpone (1605) that is considered to be the greatest comedy in English epitomized the classical spirit of comedy. Shakespeare was aware of the classical tradition by the chose to follow the Roman tradition of Petrarch and Boccacio. Shakespeare's early comedies were classical in spirit but the later ones were more emotional, fanciful and humorous. The Merchant...
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Millions Of People Difficult To Find
1,622 wordsJELL-Os New Celebrity JELL-O is one of the most famous brands in the USA founded a hundred years ago. JELL-O is a trademark produced a wide range of products from gelatin and desserts to snacks included about 160 items. Today it considered the most recognizable brand among snacks products in the USA and in the world. Over thirty years well-known actor and comedian Bill Cosby have represented this brand being its celebrity. Bill Cosby has worked for JELL-O quite along period of time being the fav...
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Itchy And Scratchy One Of The Most Important
4,142 wordsThe American animation The Simpsons is now in its 10 th season as a show in its own right. It was created by Matt Groening as shorts for the Tracy Ullman Show and was bought by the Fox Network, which began screening it as half-hour shows in 1989. Initially its success was restricted to the 9 - 16 year old age group, and for animation there is nothing remarkable about this. Its success grew quickly and it is now popular in many countries with many different audiences. In the 1990 s we are seeing ...
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Saturday Evening Post Comedy And Tragedy
1,618 wordsSince 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 blended them into a new and harmonious entity remained elusive. That is, until Catc...
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Twenty Four Years Quot Quot
2,975 wordsChristopher Christoper Marlow Christopher Marlow Christopher Marlowe was born on February 6, 1564 (Discovering Christopher Marlowe 2), in Canterbury, England, and baptized at St. George? s Church on the 26 th of the same month, exactly two months before William Shakespeare was baptized at Stratford-upon-Avon (Henderson 275). He was the eldest son of John Marlowe of the Shoemaker? s Guild and Katherine Arthur, a Dover girl of yeoman stock (Henderson 275). Upon graduating King? s School, Canterbur...
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Cherry Orchard As A Seminal Orchard As A Seminal Object Family
705 wordsThere is a convincing debate whether The Cherry Orchard is a tragedy or a comedy. Chekhov strongly argues that the play is a comedy and should be performed as a comedy. The philosopher Aristotle can support Chekhov perception of his play. Aristotle defines a comedy as? an imitation of characters of a lower type who are not bad in themselves but whose faults possess something ludicrous in them. ? The misinterpretation of The Cherry Orchard is due to a misunderstanding of what a comedy is. The sym...
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Journey Through Hell York Pantheon Books
1,851 wordsDantes Inferno Dante Alighieri, one of the greatest poets of the Middle Ages, was born in Florence, Italy on June 5, 1265. He was born to middle-class Florentine family. At an early age he began to write poetry and became fascinated with lyrics. During his adolescence, Dante fell income with a beautiful girl named Beatrice Portinari. He saw her only twice but she provided much inspiration for his literary masterpieces. Her death at a young age left him grief-stricken. His first book, La Vita Nuo...
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Twenty Four Years Tragic Hero
3,225 wordsFaustus: Renaissance Martyr or Tragic Hero Faustus died a death that few could bear to imagine, much less experience. After knowing for many years when exactly he would die, he reached the stroke of the hour of his destiny in a cowardly, horrid demeanor. Finally, when the devils appeared at the stroke of midnight, tearing at his flesh as they draw him into his eternal torment, he screams for mercy without a soul, not even God Himself, to help him. However, what to consider Doctor John Faustus fr...
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Sophocles And Euripides Aeschylus Sophocles
296 wordsPlaywrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles, And Euripides Essay, Research Playwrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles, And Euripides The starting point when discussing comedy and tragedy would be to define the main terms. Comedy is the dramatic genre that focuses on human weakness through humor. Comedy celebrates the regeneration of life through love and reconciliation. Tragedy is the dramatic genre initiated by ancient Greek playwrights such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Tragedy focuses on suffering and...
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Avant Garde Alfred Hitchcock
4,284 wordsHistorians have traced homosexual imagery to the very start of American cinema, with the Thomas Edison film The Gay Brothers (1895), directed by William Dickson, in which two men dance together. Female impersonators and women playing male roles, both fixtures in late- 19 th-century vaudeville and theater, began appearing in split- and one-reel films of the 1900 s. Today this work can seem more overtly gay or lesbian than it did in its time, when the notion of homosexual desire was more strictly ...
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Sitcom Writers Sitcom Writing Comedy
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Leaves The Reader Reader Realizes
796 wordsProblem of Genre in Drama When a reader thinks of a play that has been labeled a comedy he thinks of light-hearted and happy plots. The reader would not think of family tension, arguments or even perversion. The genre of comedy takes on the responsibility of making the audience laugh and walk away from the production with a satisfied feeling. But when comedy is subverted by tragedy the reader or audience leaves the production wondering if what they just experienced was correct. The play The Home...
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Saturday Night Live Meaning Of Life
2,207 wordsThe Satirical Essence Of Monty Python Imbibed The Satirical Essence Of Monty Python Imbibed Into Cotemporary Theatre The very essence of Contemporary Theatre is that is such a diverse realm of performance art. Many different playwrights have contributed to this post World War Two theatre that instead of keeping to just one narrow genre it was able to branch out to cover all aspects and views of an ever transitional modern society. Theatrical pieces from this time period have ranged from Existent...
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350 wordsShakespeare, is quite possibly one of English literature? s most esteemed and influential writers / playwrights , in history. His talent for composing classic scripture shines through his comedies, A Midsummer Night? s Dream, in particular. In this play, Shakespeare incorporates many distinct types of comedy to accent his knack for creating heart-felt plays that have deeply touched millions. There are several different types of comedies in the book and each is well represented through complex ch...
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