Essays on Comedy

When people look back on their past there are inevitably things that they would want to go back and change, wondering what effects those changes would have on their future and how it would potentially improve their life. If an individual could live their life...

Renowned comic extraordinaire Scott McCloud believes that comics have been in presence for a relatively long time, however, many fine works of art are mistakenly classified as other works of art rather than comics. He clarifies the basics of the genre, including the progression of...

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a show that first aired on FOX on September 17th, 2013. It is a comedy about the lives of the New York Police Department and their adventures. With a multi-racial cast, incredibly represented male and female characters, and well-timed jokes, the show...

In ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, comedy is used in a way to simplify topics that are mentioned in the text and portrays it in a way that engages the audience, makes a point and makes it easy to comprehend and understand. Comedic techniques are...

Shakespeare’s Elizabethan comedy, The Taming of the Shrew, is an illustration of the imbalance of power in a patriarchal society and the expected gender roles of its time. Gil Junger’s modern adaptation, the film 10 Things I Hate About You, depicts a more hopeful perspective...

William Shakespeare’s 16th century play ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ portrays an indisputable notion of the imbalance in power between men and women and how they are perceived in society, which remains constant in the 20th century film adaptation ’10 Things I Hate About You’....

Romeo and Juliet, famous as a classical tragedy, but nobody knows its really a comedy. Willam Shakespeare is known for adding humorous effects, and deeper meanings to his literature through puns, especially in Romeo and Juliet. The story of Romeo and Juliet is about two...

Can Taming of the Shrew be named a comedy? Can a play in which the main character is tortured by sleep deprivation, starvation, humiliation, mockery of the logic and common sense be called a comedy? Certainly, Catherine is not an angel. She is quite rude...

It is not a secret these days that comedians earn good money doing what they like doing best. That is not only in Europe and America, but now also in Africa. This profession has become a very profitable one to the extent that there are...

If the events of the movie or comic book involving Deadpool are taken for surface value, one may think that Deadpool is a villain, or at most, an anti-hero. If you analyze his origin story, one may very quickly realize that every single event that...