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The Comparison of Two Comedies "Liar Liar" & "A Thousand Words"

Book Review Comedy 1 Page

Comedy has a way of making people laugh to certain subject that we struggle with in everyday life. They twist and turn it so that it is comfortable for people to laugh at and enjoy themselves. But what most people don’t know is that these...

Humour as the Backbone of the Country Wife

Comedy 1 Page

As a Restoration Comedy humour is central to Wycherley’s play. Like many other Restoration Comedies The Country Wife is characterised by farcical humour that runs throughout the whole play, generated through wit, sexual innuendo and a great deal of dramatic irony. However, Wycherley’s use of...

Sweet Charity: How Pro-feminist Concepts Are Captured in This Musical Comedy

Art Comedy Feminism 1 Page

A musical comedy, “Sweet Charity,” based on [,featured] book by Neil Simon, earned nine Tony awards since its premiere on Broadway over 50 years ago. Originally choreographed and directed by the world-famous Bob Fosse, the musical is centric in the experiences of Charity Hope Valentine—a...

The Mask of Marriage: Virtue, Honor, Reputation and Female Identity in the Sexual Economy of the Rover

Comedy 6 Pages

In The Rover, Aphra Behn illustrates a world in which sex and economic exchange unite under the mandates of the patriarchy. In such a society, sexuality is commodified, and a woman is either sold into the marriage market (by her family, in an effort to...

Equality in Gender: Encouragement of Women's Abilities

Comedy 1 Page

There are many texts that deal with the role of the individual male in society; their positions are discussed politically, socially and personally. However, in-depth discussion of the individual female role in society is often lacking during the Restoration period. Women are props, background objects,...

"Shame" by Dick Gregory

Comedy 1 Page

The excerpt entitled “Shame” by means of Dick Gregory paints a correct photograph of the lifestyles of a typical black infant, and how his circle of relatives struggled just to continue to exist. Gregory remembers a time in his existence when he was in essential...

An Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Opening of the Rise and Fall of Little Voice

Comedy Voice 2 Pages

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is in many ways a ‘la piéce bien faite’ (translated as ‘well-made play’), which consists of a four point structure: an exposition; a complication and a climax followed by a denouement. Certainly, the exposition can be identified as...

Sexism in Hangover Square

Comedy Novel 3 Pages

Patrick Hamilton represents women in such a misogynistic manner in Hangover Square that we do not get insight on a single positive portrayal of a woman that George, the novel’s protagonist, meets on his journeys. Instead, we only hear a remotely positive attitude about a...

Transforming the Presentation of Gender: Epicene and the Roaring Girl

Comedy 3 Pages

‘Oh London…. Thou hast all things in thee to make thee fairest, and all things in thee to make thee foulest: for thou art attir’de like a Bride, drawing all that looke upon thee, to be in love with thee but there is much harlot...

Spectacles and Pitfalls of Performance in the Man of Mode

Comedy 4 Pages

George Etherege’s The Man of Mode criticizes the rakish society in which it is set, yet is more critical of the foolishness and desperation that women display in pursuit of romantic love, as by-products of the rakish ideals. In particular, Bellinda and Mrs. Loveit employ...

The History of Television Sitcom

Comedy History Television 2 Pages

In the beginning, there was….well, depending on how far back in the beginning you want to go, the first situation comedy depiction most likely was animated storytelling around a fire in a cave at dinnertime, with a captive audience, exhausted from a long day of...

Ten Deeply Moving Coming of Age Stories

Comedy Novel Tragedy 2 Pages

Here are ten deeply moving coming of age stories listed in no particular order. Starting off at #1 is “Rabbit Cake” by Annie Hartnett. A tragicomedy on grief and healing, this book tells the story of Elvis Babbit, a young girl who recently lost her...

Rockstar as My Favorite Movie

Comedy Drama Film Analysis 1 Page

If i was asked about my favorite film, i would think for a rather long time about the answer. There are many well-rounded films that are released every week, so choosing best of them would be a complicated task. However, if i was asked to...

Lover Movie Review

Comedy Film Analysis Movie Review 1 Page

Raja Tarun, the young heroine who is struggling with successive flops, has come up with ‘Lover’. The film is directed by Dil Raju Banner and the film is set to become a director with Anish Krishna, who is the director of the hit film. Let’s...

The Portrayal of ‘the Other’ and Its Relationship to the City in the Roaring Girl and the Witch of Edmonton.

Comedy 5 Pages

“By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could only be given to traveling: namely, the strange” – Jane Jacobs. In both The Roaring Girl and The Witch of Edmonton the figure of ‘the other’ emerges through the female characters subversion of normative gender roles....

Hornor's Deceptive Ways of Acquiring Power Ranks

Comedy 1 Page

Throughout Wycherley’s play The Country Wife, characters reverse the time period’s normal power dynamics of reputation and gender to create power from a state of powerlessness. While certain characters appear to be powerful due to their status, honor and reputation, other seemingly powerless characters are...

Tom and Jerry Comedy Movies: Blast Off to Mars

Comedy 1 Page

The cat concerto tom and jerry is a type of gags cartoon. In this cartoon cat in grey color and mouse in brown color. Cartoons are favoritism in many Childs. But the tom and jerry is most famous cartoon in this world. In modern media...

The Use of the Fantasy Genre in Behn’s the Rover and More’s Utopia

Comedy Utopia 7 Pages

Sir Thomas More’s Utopia and Aphra Behn’s The Rover are two vastly different works of literature that focus on different matters: More’s work is a political document, while Behn’s can be categorized as more of a social one. While the two works in themselves are...

Sex and Sexuality in the Rover

Comedy 11 Pages

Sex and sexuality as historical constructs acquired new meanings in the Restoration, with them becoming the essential components of the economy of exchange. Situated amidst the popular libertine culture, the ideals of love, virtue and more importantly, the image of the woman was being redrawn,...