Ultimately, the viewer's response changes as an understanding of the novel highlight the parallels in characters, plot and the recreation of themes such as truth and error, self realisation, money and status that may be overlooked. ... In Emma, humour is based mostly on irony and situational humour such as Harriet's trust in Emma about Mr Elton's charade although Emma mistakenly misread it for Harriet "whatever you say is right and therefore I suppose and believe might be so - Comedy of the manners, the decorum of code of manners and behaviour, illusions and errors such as the u...

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Many of Shakespeare's play's follow the same pattern such as "a comedy of errors" which also hold the same layout. ... Twelfth Night follows many other of the traditions set in Shakespeare's comedies, such as the theme of love which is usually prevalent in every Shakespeare comedy as can be seen with Orsino announcing his love for Olivia. ...

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The Indian film industry has drawn heavily on Shakespeare as seen in movies like Angoor, where the plot is drawn almost entirely from "A Comedy of Errors" and Omkara, an adaptation of Othello. ... In particular, it was Shakespeare's ability to effortlessly mingle comedy with tragedy that led to his fame, and what makes his works invaluable even today. ...

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The audience would laugh at this as Bottom's error in mistaking the word 'seemly' with 'obscenely' would be apparent. ... His begging is a strong source of comedy for both Elizabethan and modern audiences as he desperately tries to show that he would be able to play the Lion – or even Thisbe! ... The audience would see this as comedy because they can easily notice that Bottom is not very clever and not the ideal person to replace Quince; who wrote the play. ...

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The individual inevitably has some flaw or makes some error in judgment. ... In the professional playhouses of the Renaissance and after, only rarely is music absent: Shakespeare's plays, particularly the comedies, are rich with song, and the skill with which he pursues dramatic ends with musical help is a study in itself. Moliere conceived most of his plays as comedy-ballets, and much of his verbal style derives directly from the balletic qualities of the comedia. ...

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Carrey is usually known as the funny man and is the face of many comedy movies, but this time he took a turn and took in a less whimsical role, in which he became the face of Truman. ... He also showed and reminded to the audience that Seahaven is an artificial set by displaying the errors that occur throughout the set such as the light falling. ...

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I thought that the author had made a silly spelling error; however, now I realize that the y in womyn was probably done on purpose, probably as a metaphor representation liberation from a patriarchal society. ... Even though this video is a comedy skit, it represents the controlling of sex in various religions and cultures. ...

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Synopsis Born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician capable of playing multiple instruments who started playing in public at the age of 6. Over the years, Mozart aligned himself with a variety of European venues and patrons, composing hundreds of works tha...

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When two or more witnesses give their account of an event, the story never comes out the same. The differences, as Browning fully realized in The Ring and the Book(1868-69), provide for powerful ironic tensions. Over and over again, in Browning's poem, the story is told of what happened on the fatal night when Count Guido Franceschini went in seach of his seventeen-year-old bride Pompilia who, in the company of the handsome young priest Giuseppe Caponsacchi, had runaway from his ancient villa and returned home to her parents in Rome. And in every telling there is another version of the mo...

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They could jam liberalism down our throats on every television broadcast, morning show, late-night comedy program, and large-circulation newspaper and magazine in the country."" ... Maslin missed the astounding error about her own paper in Slander's last-page peroration, where Coulter indicts the snobbish Times for waiting two days to cover the racing accident that killed NASCAR idol Dale Earnhardt. ... (With her customary chutzpah, Coulter denied that this was a mistake "but after the Daily Howler Web site and others exposed the Earnhardt error, Crown corrected it in subsequent ed...

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