There are many true burlesque parts in thecomedies of Aristophanes, e.
Here several of his pieces, comedies and extravaganzas were produced with success; but, upon his severing the partnership two years later, and starting management on his own account in the provinces, he was financially unfortunate.
His first great dramatic success was made with the burlesque Black-Eyed Susan, and he wrote a large number of other burlesques, comedies and farces.
Indeed, in the remarks on Jonson's comedies that immediately follow, he expressly rejects them; and seldom does he show a more nicely balanced judgment than in what he there says on the limits of imitation in the field of art.
They say the comedies rather teach than reprehend amorous conceits.
In the fourth volume of the "Select Comedies of M.
The character-comedies of Molière exhibit, more than any others, the force of his natural genius, and the comparative weakness of his artistic talent.
She often composed comedies and moralities, which were called in those days pastorals, and had them played and represented by the maids of honour at her Court.
She was fond of seeing comedies and tragedies; but after "Sophonisbe," a tragedy composed by M.
And in a later letter: "After a vile suspension of three weeks, we are beginning with our comedies and operas.
These comedies are played without accessories or scenery, and can be adapted both in London and Paris to the matinées and soirées of the best society.
Detached scenes from the comedies of Moliere were thought of, and were played by the King's musicians, comedians for the nonce.
During the winter, as the King could not well go to the theatre, the theatre cane to him, in the apartments of Madame de Maintenon, where comedies with music were played.
Then when the commissioner was tired of beating her they would turn on the gramophone and sitting side by side listen in silence to the latest songs from the musical comedies of London.
He knew all the musical comedies that had been played for twenty years and at the distance of nine thousand miles he was able to keep up with the doings of Miss Lily Elsie and Miss Elsie Janis.
The tranquil trees, still feathery, draped their branches along the farther bank of that broad river, resting from their watch over the tragi-comedies played on its surface by men, their small companions.
Some of his comedies are established classics of the French stage.
He was a successful writer of comedies for the stage.
Moliere, to the very end of his life, acted in the comedies that he wrote.
It was Voltaire who said of these productions: "Moliere's best comedies do not excel them in wit, nor the compositions of Bossuet in sublimity.
The Athenian assembly was at this time led by the demagogue Cleophon, a lamp-maker, known to us by the later comedies of Aristophanes.
The comedies of Cratinus and Eupolis are lost; but of Aristophanes, who was the greatest of the three, we have eleven dramas extant.
On the regular stage, most light-comedies succeed by reason of the bright and humorous dialogue which the author puts into the mouths of the players.
Six or seven years ago, more than half the comedies produced were based upon a chase, or else depended largely upon slap-stick humor to raise a laugh.
In our own comedies Mrs. Drew and I seek to appeal to the mind as well as to the eye, but to appeal to the mind through the eye.
Today, even the slap-stick comedies are produced in not less than one full reel, and they usually run to two reels.
On the other hand, there are one or two comedy-producing companies which adhere to the single-reel length for their light comedies of domestic life.
There is steady demand for the unusual and genuinely humorous light comedy--by which is meant the kind of photo-comedies that approximate the legitimate plays usually employed as vehicles by Mr. John Drew and Mr. Cyril Maude.
In his comedies of London life, despite his trend towards caricature, Jonson has shown himself a genuine realist, drawing from the life about him with an experience and insight rare in any generation.
His comedies have, therefore, in some degree, the operation of tragedies, they surprise rather than divert, and raise admiration oftener than merriment.
Ninon told Molière the ridiculous story and he turned it to profit in one of his comedies in the character of Countess d'Escarbagnas.
I mean this: The comedies of Molière are sometimes of a structure hardly adequate, while those of Scribe are often Parisian articles of marvellous manufacture.
The ignorant multitude, indeed, believe that this guide is the writer of comedies and anecdotes, Harris from Hanover, whom Paganini has taken with him to manage the financial business of his concerts.
Tiberius was an accomplished reciter, and could give one of Terence's comedies with an artistic variety of voice and emphasis.
I used to be present at the first readings of the comedies of their great writer, Terence.
Plautus and Terence were read in the monasteries, not played, and so were the Biblical comedies by Hrotswitha, of which we have spoken, intended to be read only, not played.
Hrotswitha of Gandersheim, the nun who celebrated the great acts of the emperor Otto I, wrote some Biblical comedies, in order to prevent the nuns from enjoying the comedies of Plautus and Terence.
This man, according to many witnesses, has done miracles like Christ; he has undertaken to restore the lost comedies of Plautus and Terence; his mind can soar on eagle's wings and discover secrets of the heights and depths.
The contrast between these authors might lead us to raise the question long ago discussed by Socrates at Agathon's banquet--Can the same man write both comedies and tragedies?
They are both Italians: their tragedies and comedies are by no means cosmopolitan; but this national identity of character only renders more remarkable the individual divergences by which they were impelled into their different paths.
The custom of the Elizabethan theatre obliged this double authorship; yet it must be confessed that Shakspere's comedies are not such comedies as Greek or Romnan or French critics would admit.
He once produced sixteen comediesin one theatrical season.
On the other hand, Alfieri composed some comedies before his death which were devoid of humour, grace, and lightness.
In all these comedies a certain smack of the pre-Molieresque fancy for Comedies des Chansons and other tours de force may be perceived.
His comedies proper are not quite so good as his operas, but much better than his tragedies.
The early comedies of Corneille have been spoken of; despite the improbability of their Spanish plots, they show a distinct feeling after real excellence.
Besides these three writers others of Moliere's own contemporaries wrote comedies with more or less success.
Afterwards it became fashionable to write comedies in prose.
At last he returned to France, bought several lucrative offices and an estate in the country, and lived partly there and partly at Paris, writing comedies and indulging largely in the pleasures of the table.
So, too, when the Italian Larivey adapted his remarkable comedies the vernacular savour became still stronger.
The great peculiarity of his comedies is that they deal almost exclusively with the middle class.
His comedies were numerous and full of wit and knowledge of the world, but somewhat destitute of finish.
Its manner was closely imitated in the already-mentioned comedies of Grevin.
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