Comedy Essays

In act 5 scene 1 how would you direct the characters use of body language, facial expressions and vocals to create a comical response from the audience? Outline your casting decisions. * Merchants worry ‘’what’s he that knocks as he would beat down the gate * Merchants shock ‘’ay sir so his mother says if […]

William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew was never published during his life. It was published posthumously in 1623. The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies, and it shares many essential characteristics with his other romantic comedies, such as Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. These characteristics include […]

A genre is a particular type of commodity . It has characteristic features that are known to and recognised by the audiences because the same formula is reproduced many times. Genre is a French word meaning that refers to types or categories of media products. Soap operas, situation comedies, police series, quiz shows and news […]

Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter, 1999) could be considered a hybrid of many different genres, similarly to other animated films. This film follows genre conventions of action, western and, of course, animation films, with some elements of comedy. Genre means the type of film that it is, i.e. romance. The conventions within these films make […]

The mise-en-scene in any program is important because obviously it is what you see in each shot, but in situation comedies it is the most important aspect because if the content does not make you laugh then the genre is not working.The mise-en-scene within ‘My Family’ adds to the genre because of the way that […]

Viewers approach the film ‘Notting Hill’ with many expectations. It stars Hugh Grant as a shy London bookseller called William Thacker who has never had much luck with women and Julia Roberts as Anna Scott, a major Hollywood star. Both Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts are well-known for their starring roles in romantic comedies and […]

It is a type of horror film in which the usual dark themes are treated tit a humorous approach. These films either uses goofy horror cliches like in some well known horror comedies of the Hollywood such as scary movie sequels, little shop of horrors, haunted mansion where campy styles are favored. First of all […]

The reason feel that the director put his combination together is because he wanted to do something different, something that really is not displayed on the silver screen during that era, and that is suicide. I also feel that the reason Hal Shabby did this combination was to remind people who might commit suicide is […]

In 1 933, the peak of the Great Depression, twenties percent of Americans w ere left unemployed, with many more struggling to make ends meet. The decade lasts Eng from 1 929 to 1939 was sandwiched in between “The Roaring Twenties” and the second Wow RL War, and left little to be highlighted besides the […]

What the Butler Saw – Comedic TheoryWhat the Butler Saw is full of outrageous antics and extreme behavior. From the excerpt “Farce and Comedy” in Module One, the author states, “Because farce grows out of an improbable, absurd situation, its principal characters are comedy’s familiar types taken to extremes.” This is most definitely true of […]

The female performer, particularly in comedy, has long faced a tougher crowd than their male counterparts. Female comedians have used different styles to break barriers about taboo topics. When looking at comedic style divisions, we find that how sex and sexual identity are addressed happens to be the main dividing line. Most female comedians discussed […]

Several forms of entertainment take place in a theatre, the art of theater is considered as one of the oldest type of entertainment. The art concerns with live performances of actors on a platform or stage done in front of an audience. Coined from the Greek theaomai, which means “to see”, a great deal of […]

The term “savagery” means an act of violent cruelty. Without a doubt, both Hamlet (H) and The Revenger’s Tragedy (RT) both contain multiple acts of extreme savagery in the form of acts such as torture, poisoning, murder and rape. But is there a place in plays which contain such dark acts for moments of comedy […]

In William Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream the audience follows the characters through a magical dreamlike adventure which creates thoughtful laughter. The comedy goes far beyond surface jokes because each trick holds a deeper meaning. Shakespeare’s immaculate and clever use of the English language presents his audience with an ongoing humor which is not […]

The absence of characters in ‘Absent Person Singular’ has a dramatic effect because the audience is aware of the fact that they are missing. Throughout the play, we meet all the main characters in each act, with the exception of Dick and Lottie Potter and George, the dog. The audience is made aware of Dick […]

Both Catch 22 and Oh! What a Lovely War are satirical comedies looking at the absurdity and tragedy of war. Being satires, they serve to expose the flaws in wartime situations and in doing so often develop criticisms of authoritative figures. Both texts approach the portrayal of authority in slightly different ways; being a play, […]

Love Actually is the story of nineteen people whose lives intertwine due to the one thing they have in common: love. It is set in London, in the two months running up to Christmas.  Throughout this essay, the two trailers referred to will be the two shown on the DVD, known as Trailer One and […]

I thought the show excellent and it definitely fulfilled the high expectations I had of it. The play was essentially a social comedy, but it was partially a tragedy also, both the comedy and tragedy themes kept the audience on the edge of their seats. The production was credible and realistic as people were moved […]

We used the text Skungpoomery as a starting point for our scripted pieces we used this text to look at ways of developing a character and using the space within a rehearsal process. It’s a comedy piece but like all comedy pieces it needs to work to be funny and the jokes have to be […]

Alan Bennett mixes comedy and tragedy in the two monologues ‘A Chip in the Sugar’ and ‘Her Big Chance’. In ‘A Chip in the Sugar’ the characters tend to be afflicted by tragic circumstances, broken up by humorous anecdotes that engage the audience’s interest and ‘lighten up’ the play. In ‘Her Big Chance’ there is […]

Question 1Sources A, B and C could be fairly useful to an historian studying the attitudes of British soldiers to their commanders during the First World War. They all have positive values but they all also have limitations. Each source shows different attitudes and they all vary in what they say.Source A is taken from […]

In literature, authors use symbolism to relay messages to the reader throughout a story. Rivers can portray many themes in a unique manner. In The Divine Comedy and Siddhartha, the protagonists cross rivers towards their goal of Enlightenment. Dante crosses five rivers throughout his journey hell to paradise. Siddhartha crosses one river multiple times. Passage […]