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The Theater and Its Use of Comedy

Funny women with a prominent role in the narrative are shared by many plays. This paper examines The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov, he...

Faith of Dante Alighieri in Divine Comedy

In five pages this paper discuses how within the poetic narrative Dante reinforces the Christian faith attitudes and also embraces...

Comparison of Vaudeville Slapstick Comedy of Laurel and Hardy and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

This paper contrasts and compares Samuel Beckett's characters Didi and Estragon in Waiting for Godot with Laurel and Hardy in six ...

'Grace Under Fire' A TV Comedy Consideration

In three pages the aggressive, superiority, and cognitive humor theories are applied to this ABC television sitcom. There is one ...

Television Situation Comedies and Family Love Relationships

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...

Television Situation Comedy Married With Children and Family Dysfunction

do. "With Ozzie and Harriet, everyone felt guilty," said Barbara Cadow, a psychologist at U.S.C. School of Medicine. "With these...

American Family Depiction in Television Situation Comedies of the 1950s and 1960s

In fourteen pages this paper discusses TV sitcoms during this time period and how they portrayed the American family with past and...

Cinematic Classification of Documentaries, Comedies, and Dramas

expectations of the movies plot. The believability of characters is directly proportionate to the credibility of the plot. If a ...

TV Situation Comedies and the Portrayal of Women

on society and human interactions. Even in family situations on evening sitcoms, the depiction of men and women and their roles ...

The Royal Family Depression Era Comedy by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber

between a life in the theater and the offer of a stable marriage to a sensible stockbroker. Fanny Cavendish is the family matriar...

Dinner at Eight Depression Era Comedy by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber

and one-time suitor Oliver sell her stock in his company. Carlotta does not consider returning to the stage as an option to her fi...

Tragedy and Comedy Compared in 4 Plays

it any longer and sign a peace treaty. "The Merchant of Venice" is much more complex and somber: there are many subplots, but th...

Dante the Poet and Author in The Divine Comedy Part I

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...

Comedy, Appearances, and Reality in Othello by William Shakespeare

only as a representation of misconstrued appearance. As time progresses, Othello - quite arguably the only character with a stell...

Aristophanes and Using Comedy as Commentary in The Clouds and Lysistrata

In twelve pages this paper considers how Aristophanes criticized the politics, morality, and society of his time through the use o...

Disguise in Three Comedies by William Shakespeare

In ten pages this paper examines how disguise is used in a comparative analysis of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, M...

William Shakespeare's Use of Fools in Comedies A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night

In five pages the characters featured in these plays are contrasted and compared. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Element of Tragedy in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors

An analysis of the element of tragedy in this classic by William Shakespeare. Mistaken identity and familial relationships are de...

Making Social Change Through Comedy

_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...

Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors and the Element of Tragedy

An analysis of the element of tragedy in Ephesus as presented in this classic work by William Shakespeare. The author of this pap...

Comedy Filmmaker Charles 'Little Tramp' Chaplinker

The filmmaking career of Charles Chaplin from the 'little tramp' movies to Modern Times in 1936 is explored in five pages. Six so...

Spiritual Journeys East and West: A Consideration of "Cold Mountain Poems" and The Divine Comedy

Comparing and contrasting the search for enlightenment in the works of Dante Alighieri and Hanshan in 4 pages. Primary sources on...

Political Influences in Canto XXIV of The Divine Comedy

This article examines the influence of Florence, Italy's politics on Dante's writing, specifically in Canto XXIV of The Inferno. T...

Anderson's "Feed" - Sinister Possibilities And Prodding

of consumerism - the perpetual wanting of more and more materialistic tangibles until there is nothing left to appreciate - reside...

Women In Chinese Culture: Historical Analysis

inasmuch as they were "fortunate to live at a time characterized by open-mindedness and liberal ideas" (Jianying, 2001). This exa...

European Government Development from the End of the Eleventh Century Until the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century

In five pages this paper examines the time period of 1095 to 1500 in a consideration of changes in government that includes discus...

The Silver Cloud Cafe by Alfredo Vea Jr.

by brackets and flashed brightly to mimic the image in paint" (7). Characters Its characters include a Chicano lawyer and a Jewis...

Home Economics Over The Past Century

When home economics incorporated the long overdue aspect of hygiene and disease control, it served as a watershed moment in the on...

Barrington Moore & Immanuel Wallerstein: Main Ideas

immediacy of dissolution the agrarian component experienced as soon as industrialization took its firm hold upon a global society ...

The Century Mall, Chicago

original theater. The interior of the mall is multi-level, with escalators and elevators "hanging" in space, certainly designed ...