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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...

Roman Comedy and Greek Old Comedy Compared

that is skilled in hearing what Thasos, a proud soldier enjoys hearing. Phaedria has a slave, Parmeno. Parmeno is supposed to de...

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...

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...

Using Comedy To Explore Social Issues

great deal of the humor arises from the plays comic premise, which calls tends to suggest that the title of the work is something ...

Afghanistan Development - Review And Recommendations

nations employ many Afghans. On April 29-30, 2007, Afghanistan held the Fourth Afghanistan Development Forum (ADF) in Kabul (Afg...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

Computer System Project

This 10 page paper looks at the way a project to install a computer system in a shop may be planned. The paper focuses ion the pla...

Scheduling

place concurrently at the same time) rather than consecutively (one at a time after each other). Possible paths Total number of ...

Planning and the External Environment

met. To consider the way planning takes place at all levels the process itself and the approaches can be examined. Mintzberg (et...

Assessment of an IT Web Site

include a jobs section as well as a section containing white papers across a large number of different areas such as SOX complianc...

Literature Review for Use in a Project on Leadership in Kuwait

or values. It is by understanding leadership and its influences that the way leadership may be encouraged and developed in the con...

Exploring Mise-en-scene

is familiar to them from their own experience of life. If however the audience suddenly finds itself at Hogwarts School of Witchc...

Dramatic Irony - Examples from Theater

Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...

Instruction and Tolkien's The Hobbit

This research paper describes five websites that pertain to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and can be used in instructing students in...

Michael Keaton and the Romantic Comedy's Social Value

job with an advertising agency. This sets the stage for marital difficulties born out of Butlers self-imposed inferiority complex...

1880 to 1980, a Century of Russian and American Theater's Revolutionary Elements

In 20 pages this paper examines the revolutionary theatrical approaches of American and Russian dramatists with society, culture, ...

Film, Theater, and Rhetoric

both about rhetoric and about the nature of its tradition. Further still, the true rhetoric of any age and of any people is to be...

Russ McDonald's 'Presentational Theater' and William Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Hamlet, and Othello

This paper consists of five pages in which Russ McDonald's 'presentational theater' theory is used to analyze illustrations from S...

Early Comedy's Birth and Development

plenty of time to waste" (Anonymous astudyof.htm). As well, the very nature of the prose and movement became based more in realit...

Setting and Acting in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In this paper consisting of five pages the uses of setting and acting and how it may have either assisted or harmed the production...

Analysis of Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

they are also alike in that there are ties of friendship and devotion between the various characters that threaten the pairings as...

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...

Cinematic Comedies and Sound's Role

theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...

Elements of Screwball Film Comedy

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

Lysistrata and Laughter According to Bergsonian Criteria

representation did not lack a more serious undercurrent, it was the manner in which it was approached that, according to Bergson, ...

Aeneid vs. the Divine Comedy

The Aeneid of Virgil and Dante's The Divine Comedy are similar in style and format, both being produced by poets. This paper compa...

Hamlet's Comedy Provides Relief

remark that Laertes and Ophelia had been discussing Hamlet, Polonius starts into a long dissertation on Ophelias lack of experienc...

Portrayal of Women in Merchant of Venice and As You Like It by William Shakespeare

of Orlando sets in motion the complex maneuverings that form the core of the plot (Kinney 299). The poems of Orlando are a mirror...