YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Serious Side of A Comedy of Errors
Essays 331 - 360
This essay describes how comedy was achieved in two science fiction films, "Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home" and "Galaxy Quest." Th...
This essay focuses on the 1773 play by Oliver Goldsmith, "She Stoops to Conquer," which is an eighteenth century play that is stil...
This paper presents an overview of "Pillow Talk" and "Desk Set," which are two fifties' era romantic comedies. The writer relates ...
William Shakespeare's comedy is analyzed in terms of how the relationships of Olivia and Orsino, Cesario/Viola and Orsino, and Ces...
This paper considers the continuing relevance of this Shakespearean comedy through its themes of men and women, love and marriage ...
This essay pertains to Annie Hall (1977), which was directed and co-written by Woody Allen. The writer maintains that this was a g...
This essay pertains to Pillow Talk (1959), which the writer describes as a classic sex comedy. To support this position, the write...
This 9 page paper gives an overview of the book The Divine Comedy by Dante. This paper includes examples form the test to explain ...
legacy of screwball comedy. Both Ninotchka and Roman Holiday encompass themes that are more sophisticated than the typical screwb...
around the world. This is evidenced in the Pelasgian Creation. In the Pelasgian myth, Eurynome was the Goddess of All Things,...
is counterfeit and he gets into trouble for using the cash. He gives it away freely and frequently and makes himself appear quite ...
representation did not lack a more serious undercurrent, it was the manner in which it was approached that, according to Bergson, ...
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...
characters have done since. She did so because she was in reality presenting the factors that were important in keeping the Ameri...
but Simons characterization that is the source of the humor. Similarly, in Barefoot in the Park, young newlyweds adjust to marri...
such as Don Quixote and his tilting of Windmills(Definitions). In this story, however, two people are simply having a drink of cof...
Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...
parodies American consumer culture as evidenced by the hilarious scene when grilled cheese sandwiches and coleslaw are ordered for...
of the couple. As Shakespeare juxtaposes their feelings of love, we find that they have not even met. Ferdinand is awakened by the...
eye"(Shakespeare Act 1, sc. 1, line 140). Thus, this first criteria and/or convention has been met. Hermia wants Lysander, bu...
Willie is still angry because Al suddenly retired eleven years earlier, breaking up the act and, with it, his professional identit...
Ophelias death, he talks with the men who are digging her grave. The comic intent of the scene is evident from the onset by the ...
So, while Twains comments are funny, as seen thus far, and while he himself claimed that humor was the key, we also note that he p...
theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...
right opposite my place, / And drew the eyes of all the congregation, / To watch the fervour of his prayers to heaven; / With deep...
Clare within the historical context of the work of Mary Ward, who established her "own missionary order, the Institute of Mary, in...
II). Through this imagery, Dante suggests that the human soul is naturally inclined to journey towards the light and to wish to as...
love one another. They give each other things, and try to understand one another as best they can. The audience feels that they do...
also survived the wreck to conceal her true nature. Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become T...
the name of Jeremy Collier (1650-1726) embarked upon his own personal crusade to censor these works on religious grounds. The pub...