Women and Comedy
Comic revisions? : Motherhood and women’s comedy in contemporary Germany
... If, in Ladykracher, Engelke exploits the humour of situations in which mothers do not act the way we expect of them, then Hill’s configuration of similar scenarios also suggests why they might do so. Hill has repeatedly ...
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Essex girls’ in the comedy club : stand-up, ridicule and ‘value struggles’
... Some recent work, however, has established that people’s responses to attempts at classed and gendered positioning are not readily determined. Helen Wood (2017) describes the situation that faces young working-class ...
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Political Comedy in Aristophanes
... That is an almost parenthetic joke; but often enough an equally derogatory view of the dêmos is a crucial premise of the main action of a play. Knights is a particularly lurid example, but Acharnians also illustrates the ...
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Vertical readings in Dante's Comedy : Volume 2
... the women in these cantos are often represented in ways that alternate between desire and ...the women he has ...the women of Lemnos for neglecting her shrines by afflicting them with a bad smell, ...
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Bordering on Laughter : The Uses and Abuses of Comedy in Novels from Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (1988 Present)
... f Women, made up mainly o f women from affluent Protestant areas, are at a meeting which Bemie and others attend, believing it to be purely for local people: ‘It seemed a harmless enough initiative- a group ...
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Synge and 'protestant comedy'
... and/or women; it is only in the Catholic Church that that they are revered through ...a comedy that clashed Protestantism with ...a comedy utilising Protestantism for quite some time because, as he ...
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Representations of age and ageing in comedy film
... with women much younger than ...another comedy about later life romance, Something’s Gotta Give (Meyers, 2003), Jack Nicholson, playing the ageing lothario Harry Sanborn, walks around in his white briefs, ...
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Racism in comedy reappraised: back to little England?
... Crandall argues that ‘attributional approaches’ focus on attributions that make a stigmatized person responsible for his or her own stigma. They are responsible for their own fate and deserve the consequences. For ...
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Current Women's Voices in the Irish Theatre: New Dramatic Visions
... Mary Halpin's comedy, Semi-Private, winner in that 1982 The Irish Times/ Dublin Theatre Festival competition for a play by a woman, focuses on four women from vastly different background[r] ...
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Molly Bloom and the Comedy of Remarriage
... of comedy that is not about bringing the pair together, but bringing them back together in the wake of conflict, separation or the threat of ...of women” ...
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Situation comedy and the female audience : A study of 'The Mistress'
... the women in the audience of The Mistress whose time, enthusiasm and hospitality made the whole thing possible; Dr Cathy Cassell for her last minute advice; Fiona Harrison, Elaine Ward, Jonathan Toogood, Ian and ...
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Tragedy versus Comedy: On Why Comedy is the Equal of Tragedy
... Trojan Women, Romeo and Juliet, Anthony and Cleopatra, The Duchess of Malfi, A Doll’s House or Saint Joan, to name but a few, are all at odds with the idea that tragedy requires the moral ...
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The mirror of life : interpretations of a metaphorical definition of comedy
... It would be difficult to overestim ate the influence th at Terence and the Don atu s comm entary on Terence's comedies had on both M ediev al and R en aissanc e readers; together these w orks w ere pivotal in the transm ...
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The Way of the World as a Typical Comedy of Manners
... The Way of thee World is an excellent example of Restoration comedy of manners in which Congreve shows himself to be at his best as far as wit and humour in the play is concerned. In The Way of the World Congreve ...
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Charlie Chaplin: The Genius Behind Comedy
... As far as comedy goes, The Kid focuses more on realism and the meaning or purpose of one’s life rather than just comedy. But certainly, the film contains some humor. It’s a little over-the- top, but it’s ...
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Women entrepreneurship: an effective and possible approach for women empowerment
... India, women have remained as a neglected section of work force. Women are lagging behind men mainly because of the relative absence of economic opportunities and minimal participation in decision making ...
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Vertical readings in Dante's Comedy: Volume 1
... Vertical Readings in Dante’s ‘Comedy’ has its origin in a series of thirty-three public lectures held in Trinity College, the University of Cambridge 20122016.1 Each vertical reading ana[r] ...
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Vertical readings in Dante's Comedy : Volume 3
... Dante Studies in Britain, but also internationally, has begun to turn with increasing urgency to a renewed sense of Dante’s Comedy as a theological poem.3 From Robin Kirkpatrick’s transl[r] ...
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Love and second sight: Bergson and romantic comedy
... way comedy works by repetition and ramification causes him to observe: “an inexorable law dooms every living thing, during the brief interval allotted to it in time, to cover the widest possible extent in ...
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Review: The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare’s comedy of cruelty
... The Merchant of Venice in Sydney Sport for Jove’s current production, directed by Richard Cottrell, opened at the Seymour Centre this weekend after playing at the Riverside Theatre in Pa[r] ...
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