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Comedy Ballet Le Bougeois Gentilhomme by Moliere

outburst which has done much to mould French genius of more recent times. The latter part of the century, which has been called t...

Depression Humor

Comedy was even more important during the Great Depression than at most other times in history, when entertainment was most people...

British Film Genre Classifications of Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and East and Lock

both can be considered comedic films. Definition of film comedy Although East is East is a slice of life film that can...

Jane Austen and Social Criticism

Then, there is the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. They are bent on being the perfect family in that the father deals wi...

The Serious Side of A Comedy of Errors

history itself. "As with many of his plays, Shakespeare drew on classical sources for the plot of The Comedy of Errors. The bare b...

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...

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...

Female Independence and Seventeenth Century Restoration Comedies

up every day / Some new unheard-of fool for us to play" (Internet source). The prologue alone suggests that Etherege was offering ...

Big Trouble by Dave Barry

that group of people "who, merely by existing, tended to violate laws that solid citizens never even thought about, like how long...

The Sociological Phenomenon That Was Andy Kaufman

In six pages the conflicting views on this late comic's career are noted while the writer applauds his uncompromising slice of Ame...

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...

Director Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996)

This paper pertains to Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of "Hamlet." The writer describes the overall film and the cinematic devices ...

Hamlet: Sexuality, Anxiety, and Madness

other. Since the death of Ophelias mother, Laertes and Polonius have appointed themselves as official protectors of her virtue. ...

Hamlet - The Question of Madness

of madness in order to distract Claudius, Polonius, and other members of the court from his plan to attain revenge for his slain f...

Images of Ophelia

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Hamlet's Ophelia. Fine art depictions of the character from history are used to exp...

Something is Rotten in Denmark

to counter the rottenness that has overtaken the land: he makes up his mind to avenge his fathers murder. In his version of the pl...

The Inability to Act

lines before the mention of Ophelia that he actually tells us whats bothering him: "Is sicklied oer with the pale cast of thought,...

To Be or Not To Be Answered

ponders "To be or not to be." This paper tries to answer his question and argues that there are two things happening in this solil...

Hamlet and Women - a Poor Relationship

his objections are overblown. When Ophelia talks to her father or to the court about her relationship with Hamlet, it sounds lik...

Ernest Jones on Hamlet’s Inability to Act

It would seem that the fact the Ghost appears and Hamlet is able to speak to it is proof enough of the reality of the vision. In t...

Rewriting Shakespeare

find a different word. The line "Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with" (III.iv.2)is difficult because "broad" does...

Hamlet & Oedipus

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

The Ghost of Hamlet's Father

he no longer has the means to interact with the living effectively, he returns to drive his son Hamlet to take revenge on his beha...

Hamlet: Thought, Feeling, Action

"When a potential suicide reflects on the prospects of facing an unknown fate after death, he is dissuaded from action" (Buttry). ...

Hamlet: Righteous or Unrighteous

the past and what the traditions were at the time, which is not part of this paper because the only source being used is Shakespea...

Hamlet, Act IV Soliloquy

He says, "What is a man,/If his chief good and market of this time/Be but to sleep and feed? a beast no more" (IV.IV.33-35). But w...

Conflict in Hamlet

she wants to be as close to the seat of power as possible and will do anything to keep her power as queen" and this sets him on a ...

Queen Gertrude of Denmark's Character

guilty. What he does not know is how involved his mother, Gertrude, is in the plotting of the old Kings death. Her over hasty marr...

Hamlet's Perspectives Regarding His Mother Gertrude and Girlfriend Ophelia

At last, however, he confronts her, all but begging her to see some truth: "My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And ma...

Hamlet's Madness Analyzed

carry out his plan of revenge against Claudius without arousing suspicion. Hamlets madness is responsible for bringing the play t...