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Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant: (Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses, The Philanderer and Mrs. Warren's Profession. Pleasant: Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell.) 1898. Three Plays for Puritans ( The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversion) 1901.
The Go-Between (1970) The Homecoming (1969) Langrishe, Go Down (1970; adapted for TV 1978; film release 2002) The Proust Screenplay (1972) — published 1978, but unproduced for film; adapted by Harold Pinter and director Di Trevis for the stage (2000); cf. Remembrance of Things Past. The Last Tycoon (1974)
The short plays are almost all comedies (or comedy dramas), focusing mainly on language and wordplay, existentialist perspectives on life and meaning, as well as the complications involved in romantic relationships. High-school and college students frequently perform the plays, often due to their brevity and undemanding staging requirements.
The Palooka. The Palooka is a 1937 one-act about an old has-been boxer. The characters are The Palooka (Galveston Joe), The Kid and The Trainer. The Kid is nervous about his first fight, and The Palooka relieves the Kid's anxiety by telling about the fictional life he wanted to lead after he retired as Galveston Joe.
The Comedy of Errors. Poster for an 1879 production on Broadway, featuring Stuart Robson and William H. Crane. The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare 's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play.
Animal Magnetism (play) Anniversary Waltz (play) The Antipodes; Any Wednesday (play) The Apparition (play) Appearance Is Against Them; The Apprentice (play) Arias with a Twist; Art and Nature; The Artful Husband; The Artifice (play) As Long as They're Happy (play) As You Find It; The Astrologer (play) The Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine Girls ...
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau dramedy, [1] [2] [3] is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. In television, modern scripted comedy dramas tend to have more humour integrated into the story than the comic relief common in drama series but usually contain a lower joke rate than sitcoms .
Aristophanes (/ ˌærɪˈstɒfəniːz /; [2] Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης, pronounced [aristopʰánɛːs]; c. 446 – c. 386 BC) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. [3] He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today.
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