EN 3191 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Apen, Jollity, English Renaissance Theatre
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Tragic farce: anything can happen, characters don"t have to act believably, everything is disorganized and crazy. Festive comedy: the plays subject matter is related to festivals and religion (for example, sacrificial rights) Caricature: exaggerating someone"s features for comedic effect. Measure for measure: this is a problem play. Hard to laugh at despite the happy ending. Shakespeare was the first to put comedic scenes in tragic plays. There is a similarity between the mottos of abbey theleme and as you like it. The prior is do what thou wilt, and the latter is as you will. Both are about living your life as you decide it. Pastoral genre: a form of literature in which the life of a shepherd/shepherdess is idealized and romanticized. It is often used as an escape by courtly characters that don"t understand the true struggles of farming and see what they want to.
