31 Aug Comedic Analysis
Length: 3-5 double-spaced printed pages (for eachessay)
Other: Use MLA formatting/You MUST incorporate Gruner into your essay!
Select THREE (3) plays from our course readings and comparehow they advance or address the genre of comedy. How do the popular taste,political environment and/or historical conditions at the time the plays werewritten shape the plays and the playwrights engagement with the comedic genre?Do the playwrights reject the popular forms, create radical new forms, slowlypush the evolution of the genre without drastic impact on the popular andaccepted forms, or re-enforce the popular or prescribed forms?
Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Gay, The Beggars Opera
Theoretical Text:
Gruner, Win or Lose: The Games We Play
Your incorporation of Gruner must be thorough. At least 10%of your essay must include a discussion of these theorists; thus, if youwrite an essay that is 1,000 words, at least 100 words must discuss a fewof the theorists main arguments, a few of the theorists examples, and thesignificance of the theorists application to your own ideas.
