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Shakespeare's Comedy No Error

for supper. Meanwhile her REAL husband returns home, but is denied entry by Antipholus slave. During the course of the meal, Antip...

Motivation and Money in the Works of Plautus and William Shakespeare

(Aristotle). According to Aristotle, comedy involves the imitation of men who are less than average. Furthermore, Aristotle indica...

Neil Simon's Comedies and Their Deeper Messages

about him that they like(attempts at creating anti-heroes aside, of course). Then, to have any kind of story at all, the protagoni...

Still Photo from the Early Comedy Mulligan's Guard March

in the picture clearly represent the intended slovenly guards. First of all we note that the two men, Harrigan and Hart, "met the ...

Ben Jonson's Comedies and Characters That Overreach

make him sick in actuality. To relieve his masters distress, Mosca tells the lady that her husband is riding off in a gondola with...

Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and Portrayal of Women

woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...

Literary Nature of Comedy

this suggests, comedy provides numerous benefits. When the famous Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean lay on his deathbed, it is reput...

Character Noting in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...

Two Different Viewpoints on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

and Titania, king and queen of the fairies, are introduced as well as members of an amateur acting troupe who are rehearsing the p...

View of Women, Two 1950s Romantic Comedies

This paper presents an overview of "Pillow Talk" and "Desk Set," which are two fifties' era romantic comedies. The writer relates ...

She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith

This essay focuses on the 1773 play by Oliver Goldsmith, "She Stoops to Conquer," which is an eighteenth century play that is stil...

Twelfth Night and Themes of Romantic Love and Friendship

William Shakespeare's comedy is analyzed in terms of how the relationships of Olivia and Orsino, Cesario/Viola and Orsino, and Ces...

Virgil as Dante's Father Figure in the Divine Comedy

This 9 page paper gives an overview of the book The Divine Comedy by Dante. This paper includes examples form the test to explain ...

Various Approaches to Love in Literature

This essay presents an overview of how love is used thematic in various texts, which includes Dante's Divine Comedy, Chaucer's Can...

Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday (1940)

This essay provides analysis of several aspects of this 1940 screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks. The analysis focuses on as...

Comedy in Two Science Fiction Films

This essay describes how comedy was achieved in two science fiction films, "Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home" and "Galaxy Quest." Th...

Much Ado About Nothing: The 'Comedy' of Scapegoats

This paper examines how scapegoats propel the comedy of William Shakespeare's play in the characterizations of Don John, Claudio, ...

The Taming of the Shrew: Universal Themes of Love and Marriage and Continuing Relevance

This paper considers the continuing relevance of this Shakespearean comedy through its themes of men and women, love and marriage ...

Annie Hall, An Unromantic Comedy

This essay pertains to Annie Hall (1977), which was directed and co-written by Woody Allen. The writer maintains that this was a g...

Pillow Talk (1959)

This essay pertains to Pillow Talk (1959), which the writer describes as a classic sex comedy. To support this position, the write...

Idealist, Realist Women, Shakespeare, Sheridan

This essay pertains to "The Comedy of Errors" (1594) and "Twelfth Night" (1601) by William Shakespeare and "The Rivals" (1775) by ...

Dreams, Magic, and the Difficulty of Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

indicates that "The theme of loves difficulty is often explored through the motif of love out of balance-that is, romantic situati...

Comparing Lysistrata by Aristophanes and Tartuffe by Moliere the Uses of Humor

terms to refer to exaggeration and understatement within the realm of comedy. As far as I can determine, both Moliere and Aristoph...

Family Reality TV The Cosby Show and The Brady Bunch?

get together, there was the typical conflict one would expect from step-siblings who are still wary of one another, but who know t...

Medieval Times and Attitudes About Women

the man is Ywain she is happy and tells him, "she ought not refuse to take as lord a good knight and the son of a king" which is s...

Catalan Identity in 'Teta I La Luna'

very essence of what it means to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she d...

Aristotle the Comedian?

is counterfeit and he gets into trouble for using the cash. He gives it away freely and frequently and makes himself appear quite ...

History of Literature and Changing Character Gender Roles

around the world. This is evidenced in the Pelasgian Creation. In the Pelasgian myth, Eurynome was the Goddess of All Things,...

Elements of Screwball Film Comedy

legacy of screwball comedy. Both Ninotchka and Roman Holiday encompass themes that are more sophisticated than the typical screwb...

David Ives' One Act Play Sure Thing

such as Don Quixote and his tilting of Windmills(Definitions). In this story, however, two people are simply having a drink of cof...