Genre Essays

Female comedians, especially in the field of comedy, have always faced a tougher audience than their male counterparts. They’ve developed various styles to break barriers revolving around taboo topics. When it comes to comedic style divisions, the main line that separates them is their approach to sex and sexual identity. Before Ellen DeGeneres came out […]

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 definition of “savagery” refers to violent and cruel acts. Undoubtedly, Hamlet (H) and The Revenger’s Tragedy (RT) both depict numerous instances of extreme savagery, including torture, poisoning, murder, and rape. However, the question arises as to whether there is room for moments of comedy and humor in plays featuring such gruesome acts. While there […]

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 dramatic impact of ‘Absent Person Singular’ lies in the lack of characters, which makes it clear to the audience that someone is missing. Throughout the play, all the main characters are introduced in each act, except for Dick and Lottie Potter and George, the dog. Although there is a constant reference to them, the […]

Both Catch 22 and Oh! What a Lovely War are humorous commentaries that examine the illogical and calamitous nature of war. Both Oh! What a Lovely War and Catch 22 are satires that expose flaws in wartime situations and criticize authoritative figures. However, the play has more visual and aural scope to portray characters, while […]

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 […]

Without a doubt, I found the show to be superb and it certainly lived up to my lofty anticipations. Both comedic and tragic elements in the play captivated the audience, resulting in a standing ovation and tearful emotions. The production featured credible and realistic performances. The beginning of the show was particularly impactful, depicting the […]

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 […]

How is amusing technique utilised in Little store of horrors and Jerry Springer the opera ( compare/contrast ) The assorted techniques used in comedy can be both cosmopolitan and specific. Comedy originating from surprise, daze or the incongruousness of characters or state of affairss is common in many genres and organic structures of work. As […]

In the beginning when God created humanity, it was said that He created all worlds in His image of goodness. Dante so adds in his Divine Comedy that God has instilled a certain bound capacity of goodness in each human being as He wills, which should be used to the full during life. It would […]

In The Awakening. the heroine Edna Pontellier tries to wake from the accustomed domesticity of a homemaker to go an existent being in the late nineteenth century American society. For her realisations have led her to assorted open uping determinations as a married woman and as a female parent. it seems in world the “awakening” […]

William Shakespeare, in his well-known comic play, Twelfth Night, creates a plot that revolves around mistaken identity and deception. Mistaken identity, along with disguises, affects the lives of several of the characters. Shakespeare’s techniques involve mistaken identity to bring comedy, mystery, and complication to the play. Some characters in this play turn to disguise in […]

The Pickwick Papers has been one of the most read and most popular novels of all time since its publishing in 1836. This novel exalts the joys one can live as Dickens portrays the pleasures of travel, food and drink, companionship between men, benevolence, the joys of youth and romance. While the novel primarily deals […]

It could be seen that it is a valid interpretation that Petruchio’s methods of “taming” Kate are comic. Petruchio’s methods of “taming” Kate may have been appropriate comedy material for the 16th Century audience, but most modern audiences find Petruchio’s “taming” methods to be neither amusing nor acceptable. A contemporary audience would have found Kate […]

One of the most daunting questions posed to graduate students (or any student for that matter) is the one inquiring about their focus. When asked about this project, I have told friends and family that I study the use of Americanness in British comedy as a means to reassert a sense of British identity. This […]

The Putnam County Spelling Bee is a play about a group of middle school students who are competing to win the 25th annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The competition is fierce, but in the end only one can win. The play was fun, interesting, and different. The wide variety of characters made the play amusing […]

Within the past several decades, comedy has evolved and given rise to new forms and categories of standup comedy. Originally, standup comedy consisted of comedians ridiculing themselves or the audience in order to generate laughter; and the topic of a comedy act is typically related to social issues or general aspects of culture and society […]

All Things Bright and Beautiful is a comedy with serious implications. The meaning of this play is far too strong to be ever sunk in comedy. Waterhouse and Hall have captured the audiences’ attention well with the witty comedic side to this play, but have also introduced a very serious element, that is the destruction […]