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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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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predominant issue that can be seen throughout history and in literature. In the comedic Greek play‚ “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes‚ both women and men are characterized by stereotypical thoughts; that men are the providers who have authority‚ and women are wild‚ impractical caretakers of the household. There is one though‚ who defies some the stereotypical thoughts of women‚ and that is Lysistrata‚ a strong‚ cunning‚ intellectual women who devises a plan to end on ongoing war that has left all the
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Lysistrata is a play about female agency in 5th century BCE Greece. What makes the sources of its humor different from those in The Acharnians or The Clouds? What comic truth does it try to convey that makes it different? Is the woman’s revolution it depicts permanent or temporary? Lysistrata is Aristophanes’ peace play‚ Compared with Acharnians and clouds‚ the protagonist of this play is a woman. Angry with the way men have devastated Greece through their love for the war‚ she arranges a group
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Ado about Nothing is a comedy without substance” Discuss Old and new comedy both appear during the play‚ they are only produced for entertainment purposes.Old comedy usually sees a plot with a problem to overcome. This is attempted with a absurd plan‚ often leading to satire and buffoonery.These key features of old comedy are shown when Hero has to fake her death in order for Claudio to marry her and dogberry and verges court case to gain respect and honour.New Comedy is also visible in the
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to come to their senses. Fear can make a person go from being obscure of what heinous crimes that they are or have committed to being more sheepish than the boy who cried wolf. This story‚ “The Divine Comedy” is based on fear where the reader is taken on a journey like no other. ‘The Divine Comedy’ is the life-long work about a philosophical Christian‚ Dante Alighieri‚ who after being exiled from Florence‚ in the year 1302 Dante commenced to write his views on the repercussion of sinning in the form
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disguise contribute to dramatic comedy in Twelfth Night? Twelfth Night in set in an era of dramatic comedy under going changes‚ certain themes that used to perfectly acceptable although controversial was now seen to be distasteful and often looked down upon‚ this was due to the emergence(or rather acknowledgment) of two very different types of comedy: old comedy and new comedy‚ although neither were genre had a very high status in theatre compared to tragedies. Old comedy was used in theatre for a very
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William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is labeled as a comedy. A comedy is a play that is built around something entertainingly funny. The tragedy genre is a story built around something awful that happened. This play is built up of both which would make this a tragic-comedy. Even though there are funny parts‚ there are also some sad/unfortunate parts. Much Ado About Nothing should be labeled as a tragic-comedy because there is a faked death caused by humiliation‚ and heartbreak in the play
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Full Circle from Sin to Salvation Great works of literature have been written throughout history. However‚ The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost have the inept ability to stir the soul and cause a person to examine and re-examine their life. The brilliant descriptions‚ use of imagery‚ metaphor and simile give a person a vivid picture of the creation of man and the possibilities for life in the hereafter. This is done‚ as a person is able to see‚ full circle‚ from the beginning of time to the
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play‚ “Much Ado About Nothing”‚ highlights the conventions of a Shakespearean comedy. Good morning teacher and students‚ I’m here to talk to you about Shakespeare’s clever comedy achieved by many techniques to amuse his audience. The main purpose of a comedy is to entertain the audience; Shakespeare has effectively achieved this through his ideas and techniques. The play mainly consists of conventional and satirical comedy that stems from the characterization of Dogberry‚ the absurd idea of cuckoldry
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