The Elements of Situation: Comedy (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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In spite of this, I know of no better means of getting im mediately at the roots of a subject than the examination and analysis of the definition or definitions of the subject in volved. Perhaps in the truesense of its meaning the com pound word situation-comedy is tautological, for any presentable screen comedy must contain situations. The term has come into common use, however, in order to dis tinguish between the clean-cut, plausible quality of screen humor and what is known as slapstick comedy. With the details of this difference we shall deal presently. For the moment let us turn to the Standard Dictionary. There we find comedy defined as Dramatic representation of lively or amusing incidents, droll characters, etc.; an entertain ing drama; anything ludicrous or comical. In Webster's Unabridged Dictionary we find the following: A drama of light and amusing rather than serious character, and typically having a happy ending; the phase of drama ex pressing the comic or depicting scenes of amusing or cheer ful nature. Dryden wrote Comedy presents us with the imperfections of human nature; farce entertains us with what is monstrous and chimerical. The phraseology used in the Standard and Webster's differs, but the content is essentially the same.

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