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Mrs. Abbott Theater Production Summarize notes where you see the ketchup bottle  The Comic Play Mrs. Abbott Theater Production

And they lived happily ever after… What is a Comedy? And they lived happily ever after… Comedy is a word that to Greeks and Romans meant a stage-play with a happy ending. As time passed, the word came more and more to be associated with any sort of entertainment intended to cause laughter.

Characteristics of a Comedy Characteristics of comedy -- a way of looking at the world in which basic values are asserted but natural laws suspended -- to underscore human follies and foolishness -- sometimes wry, rueful, hilarious. suspension of natural laws contrast between social order and individual

Characteristics of a Comedy comic premise: the idea or concept that turns the accepted notion of things upside down and makes it the basis of the play -- provides structural and thematic unity and can be a springboard for comic dialog, characters, and situations. involves exaggeration and incongruity and contradictions-- Incongruity -- illogical, out of place surprise.

There is a whole world to deplore! Comic Techniques There is a whole world to deplore! verbal humor puns Malapropisms: misusing wrong words in such a way that they sound similar but usually are strikingly different from the word intended.

Comic Techniques Exaggerated Characterizations incongruity between the way characters see themselves or pretend to be, as opposed to the way they really are lot complications -- especially in farce mistaken identities – The Brothers Menaechmus

Kinds of Comedy Farce: a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. Physical comedy: "slapstick" -- physical action provokes the thought. Satire: ridicule of public institutions and figures. Domestic Comedy: home and hearth. Comedy of Manners / Wit: similar to character and situation aristocratic and witty characters .

Kinds of Comedy Parody: borrows the form of some popular genre, artwork, or text but uses certain ironic changes to critique. Black comedy: dark humor that makes light of so-called dark or evil elements in human nature. Romantic comedy: depicts romance in humorous terms, and focuses on the foibles of those who are falling in love.

Your Comedy Will center around one prop 2 characters 5-6 pages long One location One time period