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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"stock characters"”.
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The Self-Regarding Comedy of the Contemporary British Stage
… I examine how these playwrights alter and update stock characters and boy-meets-girl plots, and how they move away from traditional exposition and neatly resolved linear plotlines. Their comedies rework the romantic hero and heroine, and other stock characters. Their works may end unhappily, or …
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Commedia
… on etymology and cosmogony viewed through stock characters from traditional Commedia dell'arte improvisational theater. The text focuses on the characters ability to dream a new world into reality, pulling from the traditions of several ancient creation myths (Welsh, Norse, Greek, and …
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Mixing the Roman miles: Character Development in Terence's Eunuchus
… explore Terences innovative development of three stock characters: Chaerea, the adulescens amator, Thraso, the miles gloriosus, and Gnatho, the parasitus. In the Eunuchus Terence provides each of these characters with a mythological parallel that reveals the character's inner thoughts, motives, …
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Arlecchino's Journey: Crossing Boundaries Through La Commedia Dell'arte
… symbols through the creation of specific stock characters, I will concentrate on the international tours and performances. By looking at the adaptive qualities of the troupes, and specifically their ability to play off of Europe's lack of national identity and Northern European's …
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Fairytale Characteristics in Medieval Romances
… be a problematic genre. Its fantastic events, stock characters, repetitive structures and contrived endings seem to belong with the fairytale of the nursery rather than with the serious literature of the adult world. Stylistically, so many romances do little to counter this impression with …
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No Slip-Shod Muse: A Performance Analysis of Some of Susanna Centlivre's Plays
… theatre, most critics agree, was filled with stock characters and predictable plot lines. But it is during this so-called "dry spell" that Centlivre refines her stagecraft, and convinces cautious managers to bank on her work, providing evidence that playwrights of the period were subtly …
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Aristophanes And The Poetics Of Low Comedy
… mode. The low mode is characterized by stock characters and routines, physical humor, obscenity, and a sense of antiquity. The high-comic mode is politically engaged, didactic, sophisticated, novel, and concerned with contemporary events. Aristophanes consistently speaks of the low-comic …
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Il Pazzia D'innamorati: A Commedia Dell'arte
… but continues to further our ability to create characters and scenario for future projects as the root of improvisation. By coupling research on commedia components (character, lazzi and scenario) with the creation of an improvisational troupe, a commedia piece will be developed, documented and …
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Inventing 'living emblems': emblem tradition in the masques of Ben Jonson, 1605-1618
… identifying particularly emblematic scenes or characters and analysing their construction, however, this investigation of the emblematic in Jonson begins with analysis of his theory of masque creation. The evidence he leaves in the introductions to masque publications and his notes in …
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A 16 Bar Cut: The History Of American Musical Theatrean Original Script And Monograph Document
… with building approximately fifty auxiliary characters throughout the show. As a writer, there are two major challenges that I foresee. The first challenge is the arc of the show--needing to keep a steady through-line that will let the audience understand what is happening and follow the …