Comedies Sentence Examples

Nine comedies of Aristophanes appeared in 1498.

Of these the most popular are comedies and serio-comic national dramas.

On the other hand it is hardly likely that all his comedies (which greatly exceeded in number the extant twenty) were produced during the last twenty years of his life.

Moreover, southern Italy and Sicily afforded many opportunities for witnessing representations of Greek comedies and tragedies.

He is even credited, on fairly probable testimony, with a share at least in the composition of several comedies.

There are many different romance movies available to watch, from romantic comedies to dramas, and since love is one of the most popular things to both write and make movies about, there are sure to be many more in years to come.

He is further credited by the scholiast on Aristophanes (loc. cit.) with having composed comedies, dithyrambs, epigrams, paeans, hymns, scolia, encomia and elegies; and he is the reputed author of a philosophical treatise on the mystic number three.

The first of his original pieces performed was Der y politiske Kandestober (The Pewterer turned Politician); he wrote other comedies with miraculous rapidity, and before 1722 was closed, there had been performed in succession, and with immense success, Den Vaegelsindede (The Waverer), Jean de France, Jeppe paa Bjerget, and Gert the Westphalian.

He therefore closed his career as a dramatic poet by publishing in 1731 his acted comedies, with the addition of five which he had no opportunity of putting on the stage.

His comedies give a truthful and interesting picture of 18th century society, especially his best comedy, the Alec rim e Mangerona, in which he treats of the fidalgo pobre, a type fixed by Gil Vicente and Francisco Manoel de Mello.

After bringing out these plays Terence sailed from Greek parts, either to escape from the suspicion of publishing the works of others as his own, or from the desire to obtain a more intimate knowledge of that Greek life which had hitherto been known to him only in literature and which it was his professed aim to reproduce in his comedies.

The extraordinary result obtained by Terence is that, while he has left no trace in any of his comedies of one sketching from the life by which he was surrounded, there is perhaps no more truthful, natural and delicate delineator of human nature, in its ordinary and more level moods, within the whole range of classical literature.

The art of his comedies consists in the clearness and simplicity with which the situation is presented and developed, and in the consistency and moderation with which his various characters play their parts.

Hi is the subject of one of the extant comedies of Aristophanes, the Plutus.

The comedies of Segura on the customs of Lima society, entitled Un Paseo a Amancaes and La Saya y Manto, have no equal in the dramatic literature of Spanish America and few in that of modern Spain.

The comedies of Terence may therefore be held to give some indication of the tastes of Scipio, Laelius and their friends in their youth.

Although the artistic product of the first period of Latin literature which has reached us in a complete shape is limited to the comedies of Plautus and Terence, the influence may most appropriately be taken as marking the end of one period and the beginning of another.

Amphitryon was the title of a lost tragedy of Sophocles; the episode of Zeus and Alcmene forms the subject of comedies by Plautus and Moliere.

As a dramatist Korner was remarkably prolific, but his comedies hardly touch the level of Kotzebue's and his tragedies, of which the best is Zriny (1814), are rhetorical imitations of Schiller's.

He was now driven in upon his books for the employment of a restless temperament; and to this irksomeness of enforced leisure may be ascribed the production of the Principe, the Discorsi, the Arte della guerra, the comedies, and the Historie fiorentine.

A translation of the Andria and three original comedies from his pen are extant, the precise dates of which are uncertain, though the greatest of them was first printed at Rome in 1524.

Nicolaus also wrote comedies and tragedies, paraphrased and wrote commentaries on parts of Aristotle, and was himself the author of philosophical treatises.

His poems, novels and comedies are full of wit and exuberant vitality.

The bishop was also the writer of some pretty good comedies.

Aloysius Felinski (1771-1820) produced an historical tragedy, Barbara Radziwill, and some good comedies were written by Count Alexander Fredro (1793-1876).

From 1819 to 1835 he wrote about seventeen pieces and then abandoned publishing, having taken offence at some severe criticisms. At his death he left several comedies, which were issued in a posthumous edition.

Mention must also be made of Balucki (1837-1901), author of novels and comedies, and Narzymski (1839-1872), who was educated in France, but spent part of his short life in Cracow, author of some very popular tales.

He wrote a number of comedies, to one of which, La Belle Plaideuse, Moliere's L'Avare is said to owe something; and also some volumes of verse.

Two comedies drawn from medieval subjects, Gillets hemlighet (" The Secret of the Guild," 1880) and herr Bengt's Hustru (" Bengt's Wife," 1882), were followed by the legendary drama of Lycko Pers resa (" The Journal of Lucky Peter "), written in 1882 and produced with great success on the stage a year later.

Reference is there made to Philostratus as the son of Verus, a rhetorician in Nero's time, who wrote tragedies, comedies and treatises.

He also wrote scholia on Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (with life), and three of the comedies of Aristophanes; the scholia on Pindar, attributed to him in two MSS., are now assigned to Demetrius Triclinius.

Auguste Clavareau (1787-1864), a mediocre poet, an imitator of the French and Dutch, produced some successful comedies, but he ceased to write plays before 1830.

Among the famous dramatic pieces of this epoch was the Andre Chenier (1843) of Edouard Wacken (1819-1861), who was a lyric rather than a dramatic poet; also the comedies of Louis Labarre (1810-1892) and of Henri Delmotte (1822-1884).

Six comedies entitled Sappho and two Phaon, were produced by the Middle Comedy; but, when we consider, for example, the way in which Socrates was caricatured by Aristophanes, we are justified in putting no faith whatever in such authority.

He was entrusted by Ptolemy with the task of arranging the comedies in the Alexandrian library, and as the result of his labours composed a treatise On Comedy.

There are few traces of dramatic effort in Denmark before the Reformation; and many of the plays of that period may be referred to the class of school comedies.

Sophus Birket Smith (Copenhagen, 1868), who also edited the comedies ascribed to Chr.

Nor in any series of comedies in existence is decency so rarely sacrificed to a desire for popularity or a false sense of wit.

His mythological or pastoral dramas, his great satiric epos of Adam Homo (1841-1848), his comedies, his lyrics, and above all his noble philosophic tragedy of Kalanus, prove the immense breadth of his compass, and the inexhaustible riches of his imagination.

Mention must also be made of two dramatists, Peter Thun Feorsom (1777-1817), who produced an excellent translation of Shakespeare (1807-1816), and Thomas Overskou (1798-1873), author of a long series of successful comedies, and of a history of the Danish theatre (5 vols., Copenhagen, 18J4-1864).

Other writers whose names connect the age of romanticism with a later period were Meyer Aron Goldschmidt (1819-1887), author of novels and tales; Herman Frederik Ewald (1821-1908), who wrote a long series of historical novels; Jens Christian Hostrup (1818-1892), a writer of exquisite comedies; and the miscellaneous writer Erik Biigh (1822-1899).

He had Schiller put under a fortnight's arrest, and forbade him to write any more "comedies" or to hold intercourse with any one outside of Wurttemberg.

Besides writing Tell, Schiller had found time in 1803 and 1804 to translate two French comedies by Picard, and to prepare a German version of Racine's Phedre; and in the last months of his life he began a new tragedy, Demetrius, which gave every promise of being another step forward in his poetic achievement.

Eubulides wrote a treatise on Diogenes the Cynic and also a number of comedies.

He is said to have written zoo comedies, the titles of fifty of which are preserved.

This appeal has been called by a European scholar "one of the unworthiest comedies of the whole world's history," accepting the report of very partial Arabic writers that it happened when the Syrians were on the point of losing the battle.

Even the comedies of the best authors are too observant of Latin precedents, although some pieces of Machiavelli, Ariosto, Aretino, Cecchi and Gelli are admirable for vivid delineation of contemporary manners.

Blanche produced a number of farces and comedies which were announced as pictures from real life.

In the city of tyrants it would have been dangerous to present comedies like those of the Athenian stage, in which attacks were made upon the authorities.

Accordingly, the comedies of Epicharmus are of two kinds, neither of them calculated to give offence to the ruler.

They are either mythological travesties (resembling the satyric drama of Athens) or character comedies.

At the same time the old dramatists had to face the opposition of the classical school, which appealed to the cultured, and the hostility of the Inquisition, which early declared war on the popular plays on account of their grossness, and afterwards through the index prohibited altogether even the religious autos, as it had condemned the Italian comedies.

Like Silva's operas, the comedies of Nicolao Luiz contain a faithful picture of contemporary society and enjoyed considerable popularity.

Luiz divided his attention between heroic comedies and comedies de capa y espada, but of the fifty-one ascribed to him, all in verse, only one bears his name, the rest appeared anonymously.

Notwithstanding their demerits, however, his comedies held the stage from 1760 until the end of the century.

He possessed considerable literary abilities; his speeches and Greek comedies were highly spoken of by his contemporaries.

In 1632 Clitandre, a tragedy, was printed (it may have been acted in 1631); in 1633 La Veuve and the Galerie du palais, in 1634 La Suivante and La Place Royale, all the last-named plays being comedies, saw the stage.

For his next four pieces, which were comedies, there is claimed the introduction of some important improvements, such as the choosing for scenes places well known in actual life (as in the Galerie du palais), and the substitution of the soubrette in place of the old inconvenient and grotesque nurse.

As one of Shakespeare's comedies, there is sure to be the sub-plots that include romantic intrigue and women in disguise.

I was reading the autobiography of Moss Hart, who wrote very successful comedies with George Kaufman.

He was the giant of the new realist theater at a time when our West End was still dallying with drawing room comedies.

Words and Music Gordon Bull You have to be an ardent fan of these two BBC comedies to appreciate the stage versions properly.

He lived in Windsor with his merry wives, writing tragedies, comedies and errors, all in Islamic pentameter.

I like comedies and dramas on the telly - dramas seem to be getting much more scarce.

Like Livius, Naevius professed to adapt Greek tragedies and comedies to the Roman stage.

Holberg took no rest, and before the end of 1723 the comedies of Barselstuen (The Lying-in Room), The Eleventh of July, Jakob von Thyboe, Den Bundeslose (The Fidget), Erasmus Montanus, Don Ranudo, Ulysses of Ithaca, Without Head or Tail, Witchcraft and Melampe had all been written, and some of them acted.

He adapted both tragedies and comedies from the Greek, but the bent of his genius, the tastes of his audience, and the condition of the language developed through the active intercourse and business of life, gave a greater impulse to comedy than to tragedy.

Domestic affliction, ill-health and his official duties made these years comparatively unproductive, but he issued an edition of his collected poems in 1867, and in 1880 won the Karacsonyi prize with his translation of the Comedies of Aristophanes (1880).

In his thirty-three dramas, sparkling comedies in prose, more or less in imitation of Moliere, he has left his most important positive legacy to literature.

One sympathizes with their loves and hatreds, laughs over their comedies, and weeps over their tragedies.

Johnny Depp was selective in his film choices, steering clear of Hollywood formula pictures and romantic comedies for less mainstream movies.

Despite his personal issues, which have included arrests, alleged racial slurs, and some nasty public breakups, Gibson's body of work includes comedies, dramas, and even spoofs.

Kate Hudson has an almost golden image, often playing the female lead in romantic comedies.

Sandra Bullock has been appearing in films since 1987 and has a string of hits behind her, many of them romantic comedies.

His appearance in the Airplane! film in 1980 branded him as a talented comedic actor however, and this led to several memorable spoofs and comedies, including the Naked Gun series.

The films aren't obscure, or mainly independent, but rather they're a nice assortment of popular movies like blockbusters and romantic comedies.

While romantic comedies are the best date movies, any good movie will work.

These erstwhile suitors are the subject of comedies from Shakespeare to Friends, and yet the fact is that it is a reality.

Are you interested in watching romance, comedies, and chick flicks with me?

Lots of girls love romantic comedies, and many boys enjoy action videos.

In the early days of movies with sound, westerns, comedies, and dramas ruled the cinematic roost, but the horror movie was there, lurking in the shadows and waiting for the perfect moment to pounce on unsuspecting moviegoers.

Whether they're scary movies, or comedies makes no difference; many people think the writers, producers, and directors of TV movies are scraping the absolute bottom of the celluloid barrel.

Mother's Day fare is more wide-ranging, comprising women-centered comedies, family dramas, musicals and classics.

Sometimes the final draft and actual film vary greatly from the first or second revised draft, especially if the actors ad lib a lot throughout the film, which seems to be really common in comedies.

Finding the best chick flicks to watch can be hard since there are so many different movies that are made for women, ranging from romantic comedies to drama.

The top 100 chick flicks that are out there are named such because of the affinity that woman tend to have for romantic comedies.

Whether you love chick flicks as a genre or are just a fan of romantic comedies, there is no denying that these type of films certainly make their audiences happy.

For fans of all of the romantic comedies out there, remember to find a few of your favorite films and kick back.

Ashton Kutcher has an interesting resume, but as of late has been appearing in romantic comedies.

A comedic actor known for some of the best comedies, he's had a string of bad luck.

Musical comedies can be a great fit for any night.

Whether you're in the mood to sing along to some wonderful songs or just laugh a little bit, musical comedies provide the right mix of film combinations.

Whether you're interested in romantic comedies or sci-fi thrillers, it's easy to find the movies you need at the price you want.

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A soap opera focuses on the lives, loves, tragedies, comedies and relationships of the central families.

Among the few lines still remaining from his lost comedies, we seem to recognize the idiomatic force and rapidity of movement characteristic of the style of Plautus.

The six comedies he wrote in his old age did not add to his reputation.

He wrote poems of all kinds in a language hitherto employed only for ballads and hymns; he instituted a theatre, and composed a rich collection of comedies for it; he filled the shelves of the citizens with works in their own tongue on history, law, politics, science, philology and philosophy, all written in a true and manly style, and representing the extreme attainment of European culture at the moment.

Complete editions of the Comedies are too numerous to be quoted; the best is that brought out in 3 vols.