However, Chekhov called his own play a farce, or more of a comedy. ... Firs, a senile manservant, is the next to add comic elements as he hobbles across the stage also talking to himself. ... The characters and their unusual situations and dialogue are by far the most humorous elements of the play. ... Gayev's actions also suggest comedy in The Cherry Orchard. ... The most interesting aspect of the tragedy/comedy argument is the fact that the tragic or comedic element is really relative to the point of view of the reader. ...

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It had all the elements of the time period drama, romance, action, and comedy. ... To be a comedy a story must contain comedic characteristics. ... In the comedic sense it shows how impatient we are to find out the truth. To completely disbain Much Ado About Nothing as being a tragedy, there is a situation that truly makes a story a comedy and that is with everyone living "happily ever after." Relating these characteristics of the comedy Much Ado About Nothing to comedies from the present is simple because every comedic story has to contain at least one of these characteristics to make it a co...

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Greek tragedy and comedy originated with the chores, and because of this, the most important part of the performance space was the orchestra. ... The prose, the lyrics, and the dancing were the three composing elements of tragedy. ... The masks of tragedy and comedy were of an ordinary, face-fitting size, with numerous styles and textures of wigs attached. ...

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The Masks of Ancient Greek Theater Early ancient Greek theater introduced many important elements into drama during its earliest years, approximately 600 B.C.-100 B.C. ... The Cambridge Guide goes on to say that Thespis smeared his face with white lead and red cinnabar during his comedic performances in the 6th century B.C., which quickly led to the evolution of the mask. ... According to Wiles, "the masks of Old Comedy, Aristotle tells us, are necessarily "ugly and distorted, while causing no pain to the spectator"" (Wiles 68). ... In Aristotelian thinking, the different roles were ass...

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They included mostly comedies, and innovations such as exit rooms and trap doors (ruben). ... Though he used a darker, more serious approach to play writing, Helen and the Cyclops come close to comedies(theater history 1). ... The literary and musical elements he grew up around, soon influenced his genius in writing plays (GreeenhavenPress), and gave him an advantage among his fellow Athenians. ... This also allowed the plot to be more complicated and in depth, and he was able to create more dramatic elements. ...

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In many ways both these elements seem to be the same contributing factor of the war. ... It is these two main elements that lead Oedipus to inevitable fate. ... Ultimately, most if not all of the themes of the tragedy and comedy play very important roles. ...

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The light design, by Jesse Riley, is also an important factor in the play because it evokes the appropriate mood and blends the visual elements on stage into a unified whole. ... This comedic, dramatic play uses music to emphasize their action, if Roger was angry the music would be more violent. ...

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Western culture is used to theater being divided into tragedy and comedy, but within the Indian theater there are eight subdivisions: compassionate, comic, furious, heroic, erotic, terrifying, disgusting and awesome. ... The lines of tragedy and comedy are not well defined in this type of theater, but a good character will typically be rewarded and a bad character usually will suffer. ...

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"Are you accusing the world or is the world accusing you? " DOGEN Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906) was a Norwegian writer whose work is primarily dramatic. In the entire history of literature, there are very few who have measured up to Ibsen's standard. Recognized as the father of modern drama for his realistic portrayal of all types of psycho-sociological problems, Ibsen was considered the Shakespeare of the modern era. His plays made the everyday man confront himself and evaluate the society and himself with a differe...

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