SITUATION COMEDY Situation Comedy or sitcom is a style of comedic drama where characters share a common environment with dialogue that includes humor. Sitcoms usually have a story line with the same familiar characters. Situation comedy originated on the radio but is now found primarily on television and the internet. In the United States director and producer William Asher has been credited with being “the man who created the sitcom”. He directed over a dozen of sitcoms including I love Lucy
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Roman stages (Plautus‚ Titus M‚ Aulularia). Plautus was in the great Roman army; there he was exposed to the Greek New Comedy and the plays of Menander (Plautus‚ Wikipedia). It wasn’t until around the age of 45 where he began writing plays while working his hand-mill‚ grinding corn for the households (Plautus‚ Wikipedia). Plautus’ work was simply Latin adaptations of this genre of comedy. The people of Rome found everyday life very entertaining (Titus Maccius Plautus‚ Theatre Database). While writing
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What is Comedy? The definition of comedy in the contemporary meaning of the term‚ is any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or to amuse by inducing laughter‚ especially in theatre‚ television‚ film and stand-up comedy‚ (Source: www.Wikipeadia.com). So more basically‚ an artistic creation that is humorous - provkes laughter - in a number of ways including literture‚ TV and threatre. Furthermore‚ the word comedy seems to have steamed from the Greek verb meaning ‘to revel’. This
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Jordynn Barnes April 16‚ 2013 The comedy in Chivalry The historical adulteration of chivalry in Don Quixote by Cervantes ties in to its literary parody. Don Quixote parodies the anticipation of chivalric affection: lone knights had lost their military essence. The dominant classes still served the ideology of chivalry. The loss chivalry can be tied into the War of the Alpujarras. The knights‚ the caballeros de cuantia‚ were obligated to keep their horse and armor ready for serving the king‚ but
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The History of Comedy. From Old Greek to the Present Day What does Comedy mean? In old Greek times comedy was a village festival where people came together and sang‚ there were jesters to entertain the audiences. The Greeks created theatre; comedy soon followed which to the present day is known as ‘old comedy’. Old comedy is seen as very political‚ meaning that the performance
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The first period of the ancient Greek comedy is known as Old Comedy. Out of the forty poets who are named as having illustrated the style of Old Comedy in 460-404 B.C. Aristophanes was one of the chiefs‚ whose works‚ with their political satire of sexual innuendo‚ effectively defines the genre today. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Comedy) Also known as the Father of Comedy and the representative of Old Comedy‚ Aristophanes has been said to have recreated the life of Ancient Athens more convincingly
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The origins of comedy are in the 5th Century BC. So this was in the Greek era- these plays were performed in Classical Athens as parts of festivals called Dionysia. These were performed on different days to tragedies. Greek comedies would be zany and would mock both political and philosophical ideas. Aristophanes a prolific writer of comedy during the 4th and 5th century BC he is first and foremost a political writer; a satirist most commonly known for mocking the politicians of the time. Aristophanes
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Greek Theatre – Tragedy & Comedy As part of the festival called Dionysia which honoured the God Dionysus‚ tragedy‚ comedy & satyr play were the three genres to emerge from the theatre of ancient Greece. Tragedy is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes in its audience an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in the viewing. From its obscure origins in the theatres of Athens 2‚500 years ago‚ from which there survives only a fraction of the work of Aeschylus‚ Sophocles and Euripides
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on academic or athletic pursuits‚ I choose to hone in on the social realm. This is what defines me. I choose comedy to define me because it is a subject where everyone can win. In athletic activities‚ there is always a hierarchy of players based on talent. In academics‚ the hierarchy is defined by GPA and SAT or ACT scores. In the social realm‚ there is a ladder of popularity‚ but comedy can be used anywhere on the ladder. I am not the most popular person at my school‚ but I use jokes and
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Satire Satire is a term applied to any work of literature or art whose objective is ridicule. It has significant functions in social and political criticism. Satirical literature exposes foolishness in all its forms‚ such as vanity‚ hypocrisy‚ sentimentality etc. It also attempts to effect reform through such exposure. Satirists‚ therefore‚ design a work of literature focusing on human or individual vices‚ follies‚ abuses‚ or shortcomings
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