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The Comedy of Errors as Problem Comedy
Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, 1987Many elements combine in The Comedy of Errors to create a genera mista: the tragicomedy of the Egeon frame, the romantic comedy of S. Antipholus's love for Luciana, the predominant farce of a mistakenidentity plot with its knockabout humor. The plot develops out of a series of quests: Egeon seeks his son and finds his family; S.
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2005
Comedy is a fundamental part of the human experience. Collecting the work of today's leading scholars, Maurice Charney presents 40 essays on the many forms that comedy has taken throughout history. Ranging from the comic plays of ancient times to Renaissance and Restoration comedies, from Commedia dell'Arte to stand-up performers, from trickster tales ...
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Comedy is a fundamental part of the human experience. Collecting the work of today's leading scholars, Maurice Charney presents 40 essays on the many forms that comedy has taken throughout history. Ranging from the comic plays of ancient times to Renaissance and Restoration comedies, from Commedia dell'Arte to stand-up performers, from trickster tales ...
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2011
Analisi della dimensione della commedia nella serialità televisiva americana, con particolare riferimento al suo ruolo socio ...
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Analisi della dimensione della commedia nella serialità televisiva americana, con particolare riferimento al suo ruolo socio ...
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The Tulane Drama Review, 1960
A friend once told me that when he was under the influence of ether he dreamed he was turning over the pages of a great book, in which he knew he would find, on the last page, the meaning of life. The pages of the book were alternately tragic and comic, and he turned page after page, his excitement growing, not only because he was approaching the ...
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A friend once told me that when he was under the influence of ether he dreamed he was turning over the pages of a great book, in which he knew he would find, on the last page, the meaning of life. The pages of the book were alternately tragic and comic, and he turned page after page, his excitement growing, not only because he was approaching the ...
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2000
Abstract What did Shakespeare read in order to write his comedies? He read the classics, probably in Latin and in translation, especially Plautus (c. 250-184 BC) and Terence (c.190-159 BC). These playwrights, heirs to Menander (fourth century BC) and other Greeks, gave to later generations a flexible repertory of comic characters-the old
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Abstract What did Shakespeare read in order to write his comedies? He read the classics, probably in Latin and in translation, especially Plautus (c. 250-184 BC) and Terence (c.190-159 BC). These playwrights, heirs to Menander (fourth century BC) and other Greeks, gave to later generations a flexible repertory of comic characters-the old
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