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Book Synopsis Funny Words in Plautine Comedy by : Michael Fontaine
Download or read book Funny Words in Plautine Comedy written by Michael Fontaine and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining textual and literary evidence, this book argues that many Plautine jokes, puns, and names of characters were misunderstood in antiquity. By examining the comedian's tendency to make up and misuse words, Fontaine elucidates many new jokes and argues for a sophisticated, Hellenistic Plautus who wrote for a sophisticated Roman audience.
Book Synopsis Representative English Comedies by : Charles Mills Gayley
Download or read book Representative English Comedies written by Charles Mills Gayley and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Comedies ... done into English by M. H. Dey; illustrations by C. Delort by : Alfred de Musset
Download or read book Comedies ... done into English by M. H. Dey; illustrations by C. Delort written by Alfred de Musset and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Representative English Comedies: A comparative view of the fellows and followers of Shakespeare (part one) by : Charles Mills Gayley
Download or read book Representative English Comedies: A comparative view of the fellows and followers of Shakespeare (part one) written by Charles Mills Gayley and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Once More Unto the Speech, Dear Friends: The comedies by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book Once More Unto the Speech, Dear Friends: The comedies written by William Shakespeare and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). There has been a great change in the last twenty years to actor auditions, which now require the demonstration of enormous flexibility. The actor is often expected to show more range than ever before, and often several shorter audition speeches are asked for instead of one or two longer ones. To stay at the top of his or her game, the Shakespearean actor needs more knowledge of what makes the play tick, especially since the early plays demand a different style from the later ones. Each genre (comedy, history, tragedy) has different requirements. No current monologue book deals directly with the bulk of these concerns. One More unto the Speech, Dear Friends now fills that gap. This three volume set will help actors discover the extra details of humanity that the original folio texts automatically offer. Of Shakespeare's 37 plays, only Pericles is not included. In the trilogy of books there are over 900 separate audition possibilities. This represents about 600 more monologues than are available in any other series. There are four parts to each speech: * A background giving context and approximate timing; * A modern text version; * The original folio version; * Commentary to explain the differences between the two texts including full discussion of the devices peculiar to that speech's genre, the age and gender of the character, and more.
Book Synopsis Representative English Comedies: An historical view of the beginnings of English comedy by : Charles Mills Gayley
Download or read book Representative English Comedies: An historical view of the beginnings of English comedy written by Charles Mills Gayley and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language by : Keith Allan
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language written by Keith Allan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe taboo words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them. It examines topics such as impoliteness, swearing, censorship, taboo in deaf communities, translation of tabooed words, and the use of taboo in banter and comedy.
Book Synopsis Comedy Writing Secrets by : Melvin Helitzer
Download or read book Comedy Writing Secrets written by Melvin Helitzer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to writing, selling and performing all types of comedy. Includes comments, advice, gags and routines from top comics.
Download or read book English Comedy written by Allan Rodway and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.
Book Synopsis Divine Comedies for the New Millennium by : Ronald de Rooy
Download or read book Divine Comedies for the New Millennium written by Ronald de Rooy and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.
Book Synopsis Four Comedies by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book Four Comedies written by William Shakespeare and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2009-08-26 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Taming of the Shrew Robust and bawdy, The Taming of the Shrew captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and love–with her bridegroom, Petruchio, in a comedy of unmatched theatrical brilliance, filled with visual gags and witty repartee. A Midsummer Night's Dream Fairy magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood turn the mismatched rivalries of four young lovers into a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment, all touched by Shakespeare’s inimitable vision of the intriguing relationship between dreams and the waking world. The Merchant of Venice This dark comedy of love and money contains one of the truly mythic figures in literature–Shylock, the Jewish moneylender. The “pound of flesh” he demands as payment of Antonio’s debt has become a universal metaphor for vengeance. Here, pathos and farce combine with moral complexity and romantic entanglements, to display the extraordinary power and range of Shakespeare at his best. Twelfth Night Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy juxtaposes a romantic plot involving separated twins and mistaken identity with a more satiric one about the humiliation of a pompous killjoy. The hilarity is touched with melancholy, and the play ends, not with laughter, but with a clown’s plaintive song. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography
Book Synopsis The New Comedy Writing Step by Step by : Gene Perret
Download or read book The New Comedy Writing Step by Step written by Gene Perret and published by Linden Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-time Emmy Award-winner Gene Perret's ""Comedy Writing Step by Step"" has been the manual for humor writers for 25 years. In this new book, his first update, Perret offers readers a treasure trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a broad range of comedy writing situations, along with many all-important insights into the selling of one's work. Perret covers all aspects of comedy writing in his uniquely knowledgeable and anecdotal fashion.
Book Synopsis ENGLISH SOURCES OF RESTORATION COMEDY OF MANNERS. by : KATHLEEN MARTHA LYNCH
Download or read book ENGLISH SOURCES OF RESTORATION COMEDY OF MANNERS. written by KATHLEEN MARTHA LYNCH and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Language of Greek Comedy by : Andreas Willi
Download or read book The Language of Greek Comedy written by Andreas Willi and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-10-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this volume illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. Topics discussed include the relationship of comedy and iambus, the world of Doric comedy in Sicily, figures of speech and obscene vocabulary in Aristophanes, comic elements in tragedy, language and cultural identity in fifth-century Athens, linguistic characterization in Middle Comedy, the textual transmission of New Comedy, and the interaction of language and dramatic technique in Menander. Research in these topics and in related areas is reviewed in an extensive bibliographical essay. While the main focus is on comedy, the diversity of the approaches adopted (including narratology, pragmatics, lexicology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, and textual criticism) ensures that much of the work applies to different genres and is relevant also to linguists and literary scholars.
Book Synopsis The Comedy of Errors by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Comedy of Errors written by William Shakespeare and published by Digireads.com Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Comedy of Errors" is the story of two identical twins named Antipholus who are separated following a shipwreck 25 years earlier. Antipholus of Ephesus grows up in Ephesus with his mother, while Antipholus of Syracuse grows up in Syracuse with his father. Despite a ban on travel between the two cities, their father, Egeon, travels from Syracuse to Ephesus to try and find his long lost son and wife.
Book Synopsis A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by : Sir Adolphus William Ward
Download or read book A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis English Stage Comedy 1490-1990 by : Alexander Leggatt
Download or read book English Stage Comedy 1490-1990 written by Alexander Leggatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004. English stage comedy has weathered centuries of social and theatrical change. How did it survive? English Stage Comedy 1490–1990 is a unique and beautifully written study of the comedy of the English stage from the Tudor period to the late twentieth century. Organized thematically, it shows how this remarkably enduring genre has dealt with the tensions of social life, using its conventions as tools for social inquiry. Through an examination of comedy Alexander Leggatt demonstrates that an approach through genre, neglected in recent criticism, can have much to say about our current concerns with the relations between literature and society. English Stage Comedy 1490–1990 surveys five centuries of classic comic drama, focusing on major playwrights such as: Shakespeare, Jonson, Etherege, Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Wilde, Shaw, Coward, Orton, Ayckbourn and many lesser-known figures.
