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Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1769
Category : Latin drama
ISBN : NYPL:33433082217849
Author : Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781351305709
Just as a distinctive literary voice or style is marked by the ease with which it can be parodied, so too can specific aspects of humor be unique. Playwrights, television writers, novelists, cartoonists, and film scriptwriters use many special technical devices to create humor. Just as dramatic writers and novelists use specific devices to craft their work, creators of humorous materials?from the ancient Greeks to today's stand-up comics?have continued to use certain techniques in order to generate humor. In The Art of Comedy Writing, Arthur Asa Berger argues that there are a relatively limited number of techniques?forty-five in all?that humorists employ. Elaborating upon his prior, in-depth study of humor, An Anatomy of Humor, in which Berger provides a content analysis of humor in all forms?joke books, plays, comic books, novels, short stories, comic verse, and essays?The Art of Comedy Writing goes further. Berger groups each technique into four basic categories: humor involving identity such as burlesque, caricature, mimicry, and stereotype; humor involving logic such as analogy, comparison, and reversal; humor involving language such as puns, wordplay, sarcasm, and satire; and finally, chase, slapstick, and speed, or humor involving action. Berger claims that if you want to know how writers or comedians create humor study and analysis of their humorous works can be immensely insightful. This book is a unique analytical offering for those interested in humor. It provides writers and critics with a sizable repertoire of techniques for use in their own future comic creations. As such, this book will be of interest to people inspired by humor and the creative process?professionals in the comedy field and students of creative writing, comedy, literary humor, communications, broadcast/media, and the humanities.
Author : David W. Chapman,Eckhard J. Schnabel
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781683072669
"The authors of this volume set themselves one task, to trace the extra-biblical primary texts that are relevant for understanding Jesus' trial and crucifixion. With that goal in mind, the book is built on three major themes: (1) Jesus' trial / interrogation before the Sanhedrin, (2) Jesus' trial before Pontius Pilatus, and (3) crucifixion as a method of execution in antiquity. In chronologically sequential order (where possible), the authors select and arrange an overwhelming amount of extra-biblical primary texts -- 462 to be exact -- underneath these three categories (75, 46, and 341 texts respectively)."--Brian J. Wright in Religious Studies Review
Author : Plautus,Terence,Deena Berg,Douglass Parker
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 087220362X
"This is a book worthy of high praise... All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all the punches of Plautus, the knockabout king of farce, and proving that the more polished Terence can be just as funny. Accuracy to the original has been thoroughly respected, but look at the humour in rendering Diphilius' play called Synapothnescontes as Three's a Shroud... Students in schools and colleges will benefit from short introductions to each play, to Roman stage conventions, to different types of Greek and Roman comedy, and there is a note on staging, with a diagram illustrating a typical Roman stage and further diagrams of the basic set for each play. The translators have paid more attention to stage directions than is usually given in translations, because they aim to show how these plays worked.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:299685301
Author : Frances N. Teague
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838635245
Finally, these assumptions lead to the corollary that such hierarchies are natural and immutable and not fashioned by critics.
Author : Elizabeth Sandis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : College and school drama, English
ISBN : 9780192857132
This is the first history of Oxford and Cambridge drama during the Tudor and Stuart period. It guides the reader through the theatrical worlds of England's universities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Early Modern Drama at the Universities opens up an exciting and challenging body of evidence and offers the reader a choice of three inroads into the corpus: institutions, intertexts, and individuals. How to get noticed at university? How to get into university in the first place, or a job afterwards? Sandis pinpoints the skills that were required for success and the role of playwriting and performance in the development of those skills. We follow Oxford and Cambridge students along their educational journey--from schoolboys to scholars to graduates in the workplace. For the first time, we see the extent to which institutional culture made the drama what it was: pedagogically-inspired, homosocial, and self-reflexive. It was primarily on a college level that students lived, worked, and proved themselves to the community. Therefore, this study argues, to understand university drama as a whole we must recreate it from the building blocks of individual college histories. The hundreds of plays that we have inherited from Oxford and Cambridge are steeped in Classical culture; many are written in Latin. Manuscript, not print, was the accepted medium for keeping records of student plays, and these handwritten copies were unique and personal. It is time to recognize these plays in the context of early modern English drama, to uncover the culture of drama at the universities where many leading playwrights of the age were trained.
Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044085219772
Author : Hallie Marshall,C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350142374
Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this selection of papers from the decennial Greek Drama V conference (Vancouver, 2017) explores the works of the ancient Greek playwrights and showcases new methodologies with which to study them. Sixteen chapters from a field of international contributors examine a range of topics, from the politics of the ancient theatre, to the role of the chorus, to the earliest history of the reception of Aeschylus' Oresteia. Employing anthropological, historical, and psychological critical methods alongside performance analysis and textual criticism, these studies bring fresh and original interpretations to the plays. Several contributions analyse fragmentary tragedies, while others incorporate ideas on the performance aspect of certain plays. The final chapters deal separately with comedy, naturally focusing on the plays of Aristophanes and Menander. Greek Drama V offers a window into where the academic field of Greek drama is now, and points towards the future scholarship it will produce.
Author : C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139458764
A comprehensive survey of Roman theatrical production, this book examines all aspects of Roman performance practice, and provides fresh insights on the comedies of Plautus and Terence. Following an introductory chapter on the experience of Roman comedy from the perspective of Roman actors and the Roman audience, addressing among other things the economic concerns of putting on a play in the Roman republic, subsequent chapters provide detailed studies of troupe size and the implications for role assignment, masks, stage action, music, and improvisation in the plays of Plautus and Terence. Marshall argues that Roman comedy was raw comedy, much more rough-and-ready than its Hellenistic precursors, but still fully conscious of its literary past. The consequences of this lead to fresh conclusions concerning the dramatic structure of Roman comedy, and a clearer understanding of the relationship between the plays-as-text and the role of improvisation during performance.
Author : Matthew Leigh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110676297
The fathers of modern freemasonry sought a classical pedigree for their rituals and forms of association. This volume offers the first academic study of how freemasons writing in the first half of the 18th century deployed their knowledge of antiquity to bolster this claim and how the creative literature of the period reflected their ideas. The scholarly investigation of freemasonry is a relatively new phenomenon. The writings of active freemasons tend either to generate new masonic myths or to focus on the minutiae of insignia, rank, and ritual. Only in the last 50 years have non-masons given serious thought to freemasonry as a social practice and to its place within the intellectual and political life of Enlightenment Europe and beyond. Study of masonic elements in literary texts lags much further behind. This volume offers the first English translations of three mid-18th century comedies on female curiosity about this exclusively male order and shows how they reflect contemporary attempts to forge a link with ancient mystery cult. The theatrical aspect of masonic ritual and the ancient mysteries is examined in depth. This volume opens up important new ground in classical reception and 18th century theatre history.
Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Latin drama
ISBN : OCLC:1000839350
Author : David Vincent Meconi S.J.
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004304567
Sacred Scripture and Secular Struggles shows how early Christians employed biblical texts in addressing wider societal issues of imperial power, slavery, the use of wealth, suicide and other fundamental issues brought about by the convergence of empire and ecclesia.
Author : Christopher B. Polt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781108839815
Argues that Catullus adapts Roman comedy to explore private ideas about love, friendship, and social rivalry.
Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Greece
ISBN : NYPL:33433070300995