Essays 241 - 270
This essay provides analysis of several aspects of this 1940 screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks. The analysis focuses on as...
This essay describes how comedy was achieved in two science fiction films, "Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home" and "Galaxy Quest." Th...
This paper presents an overview of "Pillow Talk" and "Desk Set," which are two fifties' era romantic comedies. The writer relates ...
This paper examines how scapegoats propel the comedy of William Shakespeare's play in the characterizations of Don John, Claudio, ...
This essay focuses on the 1773 play by Oliver Goldsmith, "She Stoops to Conquer," which is an eighteenth century play that is stil...
Comparing and contrasting the search for enlightenment in the works of Dante Alighieri and Hanshan in 4 pages. Primary sources on...
An analysis of these cinematic genres and how they are used are considered in an examination of Andrew Davies' A Perfect Murder an...
In five pages this paper discuses how within the poetic narrative Dante reinforces the Christian faith attitudes and also embraces...
Funny women with a prominent role in the narrative are shared by many plays. This paper examines The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov, he...
This paper contrasts and compares Samuel Beckett's characters Didi and Estragon in Waiting for Godot with Laurel and Hardy in six ...
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...
the Renaissance was actually a period in which practically every aspect of European life from art to religion would experience a r...
her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...
Athens and the Amazon Queen Hippolyta. Although the setting is Athens, Shakespeare originally staged the production at the Globe ...
also called La Commedia (The Comedy) by Dante. In the poem, the poet Dante, travels to hell (Inferno) then purgatory (Purgatorio) ...
An analysis of the element of tragedy in Ephesus as presented in this classic work by William Shakespeare. The author of this pap...
once mentioning the word "pregnant" in the script. This changed to some extent in the 1960s, but not as much as one might have ex...
expectations of the movies plot. The believability of characters is directly proportionate to the credibility of the plot. If a ...
on society and human interactions. Even in family situations on evening sitcoms, the depiction of men and women and their roles ...
do. "With Ozzie and Harriet, everyone felt guilty," said Barbara Cadow, a psychologist at U.S.C. School of Medicine. "With these...
In fourteen pages this paper discusses TV sitcoms during this time period and how they portrayed the American family with past and...
In three pages the aggressive, superiority, and cognitive humor theories are applied to this ABC television sitcom. There is one ...
An analysis of the element of tragedy in this classic by William Shakespeare. Mistaken identity and familial relationships are de...
This article examines the influence of Florence, Italy's politics on Dante's writing, specifically in Canto XXIV of The Inferno. T...
_Comedy in particular can be a window on social mores and history. This paper looks at the 1960s play A Funny Thing Happened on th...
The filmmaking career of Charles Chaplin from the 'little tramp' movies to Modern Times in 1936 is explored in five pages. Six so...
In twelve pages this paper considers how Aristophanes criticized the politics, morality, and society of his time through the use o...
only as a representation of misconstrued appearance. As time progresses, Othello - quite arguably the only character with a stell...
In five pages this paper discusses the author Dante Alighieri and his fictional alter ego Dante the poet in his epic in terms of t...
In ten pages this paper examines how disguise is used in a comparative analysis of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, M...