Thursday, November 10, 2011
Comedy of LLL
Well finally the last blog before the big show! The humor is well odd, it has flairs that can me recognized in today's social environment. There are many times where the humor is all it's own. The play has many types of dead-pan, tongue-in-cheek humor, "O, I smell false Latin! 'dunghilll' for unguem." It's like calling his bluff without calling him a liar. Another thing that is very funny with the contrast of brains and dimwits, in this "Holofernes. Via, goodman Dull! Thous has spoken no word all this while. Dull. No understood none neither, sir." This is showing how Shakespeare was making fun of the people who didn't want to change into the blend of English, Greek and Latin. The sarcasm is also evident in the humor the play, King. Fair Princess, welcome to the court of Navarre. Princess. 'Fair' I give you back again; and 'welcome' I have not yet: the roof of this court is too high to be yours, and welcome to the wide fields too base to be mine." The Princess is pretty much telling him that he is being a horrible host. It is very hard to find humor today that doesn't include some form of sarcasm, which kind of makes it the universal humor. You could almost say that Shakespeare help make humor what it is today.
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