Comedy

Sashini Dematampitiya Dr. Anastasia Easterday ART 2313.003 11 October, 2015 The Comedy of Errors On Friday October 9th, I went to see The Comedy of Errors by the great playwright William Shakespeare at the Scottish Rite theater in downtown Austin. The two hour comedy directed by Susan Gayle- Todd featured a cast of very talented local artists. Many of the actors were hailing from the Shakespeare at Winedale program from University of Texas. This was the next to final performance as the play was…

In Twelfth Night, Shakespeare experiments with the limits of comedy, what one can laugh at and at what point it goes too far and transitions from comedic to cruel. He uses an antagonist named Malvolio to see whether people can find humor in another person’s physical and emotional abuse. However, Shakespeare’s expansion of comedy serves a duel purpose as he uses it to teach his audience some valuable lessons about life and how one should behave. Shakespeare presents the character Malvolio in…

Introduction “Dante’s divine comedy’ is a poem based on a family with two children. One of them is a girl and a boy who was the big problem, but the mother was always on his side while the father was always on the daughter’s side (Klein & Deborah 620). Dante’s actions towards her sister were so suggestive that he required trigger warning for the safety of the younger sister and a peaceful family. The writer describes some themes in his work as discussed below. Racism Racism is a phenomenon or…

The fresco is Dante and His Poem painted by Domenico di Michelino. This fresco was created in 1465 and is located in Florence in the Cathedral. This painting is based on the poem Dante's Divine Comedy. In the poem Dante's Divine Comedy, Dante travels through all three planes of the afterlife. He goes to hell, heaven and purgatory. This fresco illustrates the story behind the poem. This canvas is divided into thirds. Each third allows us to see the artists interpretation of heaven, hell, and…

George Carlin started his comedy career as a clean-standup act, which meant that there were no “dirty jokes” or profanity in his acts. He eventually grew tired of performing comedy for what he called a “suit and tie” audience. He described the generational divide he caught himself in. Where he was in his 30’s and the audiences he was performing for were in their 40’s, whom were at odds with the youth who were in their 20s. He slowly started to drift away from the “suit and tie” audiences and…

Journey to Hell Dante Alighieri, an Italian poet via himself as a narrator, introduces his journey to hell through his poem “ The Divine Comedy: Inferno” which is one of the great poem he wrote. He describes how middle of his age, he ends up lost in the woods, and how he tries to leave but he cannot, which is the beginning of Dante’s journey to hell in Canto 1. This paper argues that, going to hell is not an easy road and it takes a lot of misery and fear, the people who have made mistakes…

Milton are revered as two of the most popular and accomplished poets of their time periods and ours. Both are known, not exclusively, for their work dealing with the idea and the depiction of the divine world and the journey to salvation. The Divine Comedy by Dante and Paradise lost by Milton both depict worlds that articulate a goal of eternal salvation for men and the devotion to God. The similarities and differences between these two famous works come from the specific political and religious…

Dante in his own poem The Divine Comedy is the writer who narrates his journey towards redemption. The comedy takes place in the afterworld which is divided into Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory) and Paradiso (Paradise). These three sections are, in turn, divided into 33 Cantos each with the exception of hell which has an introductory Canto. The Florentine writer is accompanied by 2 spiritual guides along his divine journey. The prince of Latin poems, Virgil, in both Inferno and Purgatorio,…

Dante has shown the process of redemption through the course of his writings of The Devine Comedy. This is a natural process that he has taken the time to work thought and explain thorough his description of a trip venturing through the areas of Hell, Purgatory, and finally Paradise. The works show the effects of life on a person and what can be achieved if they focus on reaching up to return to God through their life. Life has it tendency to bog us down and disrupt our trip back to God with…

visuals, vocals, and dialogue to make Aren’t You Embarrassed a truly excellent watch. Sebastian is not just a standing comedian. He takes advantage of the whole stage using visuals, such as twisting and lunging around, to add to the special’s comedy. For example in one of his jokes Sebastian talks about his visits to Chipotle. Sebastian mimics the employes just making tacos all day by jumping like a gorilla from one end of the sage to the complete other. He does not do this just once.…