comedy

Then, too, plays began to be divided into tragedies and comedies. A tragedy is a play which shows the sad side of life and which has a mournful ending.

Robert Evans offers a succinct and useful survey of both seventeenth-century and contemporary reception of Jonson's major comedies. John Mulryan's study of Jonson's classicism is perhaps too diffuse in its focus, but wonderfully witty, and his suggestion that Jonson intends Cicero to be a self-righteous bore in Catiline may be helpful to students of the play.

Like Barber, Hall frames his study of the comedies with a strategic chapter on the Henry IV plays.

With its structure and functioning, situation comedies that to be a media content are in which direction and intensity?

Giggle Beats editor Andrew Dipper said: "Baby Cow and Channel X have helped create some of the best comedies of the past decade and I'm delighted they have agreed to sponsor the quiz.

Weitz's goal for the book is twofold: first, to illustrate the historical connection between our contemporary shows and movies and the classical comedies of Aristophanes and Shakespeare, and second, to encourage a reading practice that takes into account performance elements.

Gervais's shows have now had a record 10 nominations, beating the previous nine held by Steve Coogan's comedies.

Suddenly, as if springing forth fully formed from the brow of Athena comes not one, but two Canadian comedies striving for the unholy glory of being successful mall movies.

Karl Valentin, the most popular comedian working in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century, recorded dozens of 78s, starred in nearly forty films, and trod the boards in literally hundreds of stage works (his own original sketches and comedies are said to number over four hundred).

Though Frye noted the problematic presence of "more ironic comedies" (183) in Shakespeare's corpus, namely All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure, he referred to both The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Much Ado About Nothing as typical comedies, in that their ends "include as many people as possible" (165) in a "redeemed society" (185).

A definite change occured in historical plays, as well as in the number and atmosphere of Catholic comedies and parodies.

The ABC introduced Thursday comedy nights a year ago with British laffers, locally made sitcom "Kath and Kim" and "CNNNN." Strong overall ratings came with an added bonus as the comedies are attracting new 29- to 39-year-old viewers to the ABC.