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The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare 's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. It has been adapted for opera, stage, screen and musical theatre numerous times worldwide.
Petruchio (Kevin Black) and Katherina (Emily Jordan) from the 2003 Carmel Shakespeare Festival production at the Forest Theater. The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, [a] in which a mischievous ...
Evan Bevan (1803–1866, Wales) – satirical poetry in Welsh. Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852, Russia) – The Government Inspector, Dead Souls. Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849, US) – The Man That Was Used Up, A Predicament, Never Bet the Devil Your Head. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863, England) – Vanity Fair.
The Duel Scene from 'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare, William Powell Frith (1842). In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies; [1] and modern scholars recognise a fourth category, romance, to describe the specific types of comedy that appear in Shakespeare's later works.
Comedy of humours. The comedy of humours is a genre of dramatic comedy that focuses on a character or range of characters, each of whom exhibits overriding traits or ' humours ' that dominate their personality, desires and conduct. [1][2] This comic technique may be found in Aristophanes, but the English playwrights Ben Jonson and George ...
Animal Magnetism (play) Anniversary Waltz (play) The Antipodes; Any Wednesday (play) The Apparition (play) Appearance Is Against Them; The Apprentice (play) Arias with a Twist; Art and Nature; The Artful Husband; The Artifice (play) As Long as They're Happy (play) As You Find It; The Astrologer (play) The Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine Girls ...
Mark Twain's Library of Humor is an 1888 anthology of short humorous works compiled by Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, William Dean Howells and Charles Hopkins Clark. In 1880, George Gebbie suggested to Mark Twain that he publish an anthology of humorous works. The idea evolved into a project financed by Clemens to produce an ...
Sketch comedy. Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. The form developed and became popular in vaudeville, and is used widely in variety shows, comedy talk shows, and some sitcoms and children's ...