Category: Comedy

Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg in Austria, the son ofLeopold, Kapellmeister to the Prince-Archbishop ofSalzburg. By the age of three he could play the piano, and he wascomposing by the time he was five; minuets from this periodshow remarkable understanding of form. Mozart’s elder sister Maria Anna(best known …

The ‘American Dream’ To The ‘Rock Opera’.The Search for New Direction in the musical.From the ‘American Dream’ to the ‘Rock-Opera’.1950 to 1978 were despondent ones for the musical. American musical theatre had been showing signs of exhaustion. This most seemingly anti-intellectual of genres carries its own ‘ideological project’. Before this, the musicals not only exhibited …

A fool can be defined in many meanings according to the Oxford English Dictionary On Historical Principles. The word could mean “a silly person”, or “one who professionally counterfeits folly for the entertainment of others, a jester, clown” or “one who has little or no reason or intellect” or “one who is made to appear …

In the film of 500 days of summer, the diegesis is introduced in the opening scene of the movie by giving events, the setting of the film and details on the main characters. For example, at the beginning of the movie Tom Hanson is introduced by “the boy grew up believing that he’d never truly …

The Iliad in Dantes InfernoDante makes many references to Homer and the Iliad throughout the Inferno. The fates of favorite characters are described during the course of Dantes travels. Beginning with his vision of Homer in Limbo, continuing through increasingly gory levels of Hell until Dante reaches the eighth bolgia where he meets Ulysses who …

Theater and drama in Ancient Greece took form in about 5th century BCE, with the Sopocles, the great writer of tragedy. In his plays and those of the same genre, heroes and the ideals of life weredepicted and glorified. It was believed that man should live for honor and fame, his action was courageous and …

We humans all live in this little place called Neverland, we love to daydream, watch movies, read novels, spend a night at the theater and so forth. Even sporting events have their own little story that we all get sucked into, its easy to say that everyone loves a good story, whether its a romance, …

The Iliad is an ancient epic poem which starts in medias-res and describes few weeks of the tenth year of the Trojan war. According to M. H. Abraham’s book ‘A Glossary Of Literary Terms’ the term epic or heroic poem is applied to a work that meets at least the following criteria: it is a …

Despite all of the increasing technological advances, writing is still a mainform of communication. Beginning in grammar school and continuing through highschool and college, thousands of students spend hours preparing essays forclass. The majority of students usually begin drafting those essays merely bystaring at a blank sheet of paper and contemplating what to write. However,writing …