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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Spolin has contributed to the three elements in the drama praxis, which are people, passion and platform. ... Spolin incorporates these elements in her teachings as she gives her students the chance to bring their own knowledge and understandings in play then an opportunity to think or reflect on the processes allowing them to transform into a more highly skilled pupils. ... Alex in Wonderland, a 1970 comedy directed by Paul Mazursky. ...

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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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"The more I think about acting, the shorter my definition of good acting becomes. If you ask me how I define it, my answer is: it is the kind of acting in which there is a supertask and a through-action. Bad acting is where there is neither"" - Constantin Stanislavski This essay will explore the ...

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