EN233 Lecture 1: Shakespeare EN 233 - all lectures, all notes, ALL DAY!
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The jokes are still funny in modern times, shakespeare often used gags which are still found enjoyable. multiple authorships - shakespeare didn"t get paid to write by himself. Shakespeare started working with apprentices and other writers after getting solo experience. 1588-1595 -> when 2gents is assumed to be written. End(-line) rhymes - the final word consistently rhymes. Comedy is a genre, it"s not about including humour: a work can be comedic and not actually funny. Unfunny comedies - failed comedies, are still comedies. Comedy and humor are inter related, but not the same. Three theories of humor that are current today. Our laughter is us expressing forms of superiority over others or former states. Hobbes - the leviathan - we laugh because someone else made a fool of themselves. We do not like being laughed at because laughter devalues the subject in the eyes of the one laughing.
