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Showing 1 to 20 of 402 for “"comedy"”.
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The Comedy of Errors: A Romantic Comedy
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare is mostly performed as a knockabout farce. Despite undeniable farcical moments the play possesses a strong romantic strain, and the directors challenge is to reconcile these two aspects. For my thesis production of The Comedy of Errors in High Park this …
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Faulknerian comedy
<p>This is a study of comedy as it appears in Faulkner’s major fiction; it deals with the comic elements of the early dark novels as well as with the comic vision which permeates the late ones. It leaves out of account, without further apology, <em>Soldier’s Pay</em>, <em>Sartoris</em>, <em>The …
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Scottish television comedy audiences
… of Scottishness in contemporary television comedy. The thesis is in two related parts, articulating an exploration of genre, comedy and Scottish television texts with the theory, methodology and analysis of empirical audience research. The thesis begins by exploring how current television …
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Stand-up Comedy Visualized
<p>Stand-up comedy has become an increasingly popular form of comedy in the recent years and comedians reach audiences beyond the halls they are performing through streaming services, podcasts and social media. While comedic performances are typically judged by how 'funny' they are, which could be …
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Lucian's New Old Comedy
… shows that Lucian is deeply engaged with Old Comedy as a literary model, and that the kind of comic dialogue he claims to invent (<em>Bis Acc</em>. 33,<em> Prom. Es</em> 6) is not an evenly balanced hybrid of Platonic Dialogue and Old Comedy as has been previously thought. Instead, Lucian …
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Shedding Light on Dark Comedy: Humour and Aesthetics in British Dark Comedy Television
Abstract The term ‘dark comedy’ is used by audiences, producers and academics with reference to an array of disparate texts, yet attempts to actually define it perpetuate a sense of confusion and contradiction. This suggests that although there is a kind of comedy that is common enough to be widely …
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The poetics of sketch comedy
The Poetics of Sketch Comedy labels, defines and analyzes the conventions of sketch comedy. The comic sketch is examined for its structural conventions, and is broken into categories for analysis. The superstructure of variety entertainment, and conventions used to simulate cohesiveness in variety …
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Mom's Money: A Dark Comedy
<p>This thesis will recount the making of the feature film Mom’s Money which I produced, edited, wrote and directed. My influences on the story and visual style of the film will be discussed as well as my prior work and the way those combined forces drew me to make this film. Breaking this into the …
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COMEDY: THE UNCERTAIN TERRAIN OF JOHN HAWKES
… most critics acknowledge that Hawkes writes comedy, very few of them agree on the moral nature of this comedy. Chapter I examines these differing responses to Hawkes' work and offers an alternative way of evaluating his humor, based on his own and other critics' comments on comedy. This …
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The function of women in Shakespearean comedy
Although boys fill the roles, Shakespeare's women are not at all masculine either in character or in conduct. They act as we should expect women to do, and they serve the Comic Muse as only women can. I think we shall find that as a general rule they are directing the whip rather than feeling its …
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Aristophanes And The Poetics Of Low Comedy
… frequently accuses his rivals of producing low comedy and claims that he would never stoop to such frivolity himself. His own comedy, he claims, is always produced in the high mode. Herein lies the problem of Aristophanic poetics: Aristophanes makes extensive use of all the low comic routines …
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Signs of change in Jacobean city comedy
… a study of a particular genre, Jacobean city comedy, in relation to its socio-economic and religious context. It aims to show that the structural forms of city comedy share similarities with structures in Jacobean social consciousness. By arguing that the plays are productions of a material …
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Aspects of Social Criticism in Restoration Comedy
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The performance of comedy by artificial intelligence agents
… agents, to act as comedian and straight-man in a comedy performance based on a topic supplied by the user in a web-based interface. This is an interdisciplinary project that draws on the domains of humour theory, creativity theory, creative writing, and human-computer interaction theory to …
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Oscar Wilde's Contribution to the Comedy of Manners
… to trace the growth and the development of the comedy of manners through its various phases, up to about 1900. It will especially endeavor to bring together findings concerning the contributions of Oscar Wilde to this type of drama; an incidental problem is to find a link that connects the …
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The Economics of Gender Relations in London City Comedy
… the women as commodities, I propose that city comedy stages a fraught condition for the contemporary female subject: men insist upon her visibility as a good circulated within the marketplace, while simultaneously asserting her invisibility as a productive laborer within the economic sphere. …
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An approach to traditions of British stand-up comedy.
This thesis is the first to examine stand-up comedy within an academic framework. It begins with a review of various theories of humour and examines the three major strands of thought; the idea that humour is a way of expressing hostility; the idea that humorous laughter is caused by incongruity; …
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