Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2009. / Typescript.

Thesis--University of Delhi. / Bibliography: p. [343]-348.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of History, 2006. / Title from second page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-160).

A presente dissertação divide-se em duas partes. Na primeira, analisamos O mercador, de Plauto, examinamos o que disse Aristóteles sobre o gênero cômico e estudamos as origens da comédia, com destaque para a Nea, com base no trabalho de George E. Duckworth. Partindo-se desse estudo, as características próprias da comédia, em geral, são apontadas, demonstrando-se a fórmula da comédia utilizada pelos autores antigos, apresentada neste trabalho, ao citarmos Northrop Frye. Após isso, focalizamos a estrutura da obra O mercador e, também, os tipos existentes na obra plautina, sobretudo os tipos femininos. A seguir, destacamos a relação amorosa entre o senex e a escrava-cortesã. Na segunda parte da dissertação, traduzimos a comédia, a partir do texto latino encontrado na edição de A. Ernout publicada pela Société d\'Édition \"Les Belles Lettres\". / This dissertation is presented in two parts: in the first one, we made an analysis of Plautus\'Mercator. To lay the foundation of such analysis, we considered what Aristoteles stated about comedy and we also retrace the sources of comedy, with particular emphasis on the Nea, by taking into consideration the study of George Duckworth. Still based on this work of Duckworth, we conducted a research on the identifying characteristics of comedy and, to do such, we also consulted Northrop Frye, whose work helped us to expose the strategies of comedy developed by the ancient authors. After this comprehensive study of comedy, we gave an analysis of the structure of the play and the characters, particularly the female ones, presented in Mercator. Eventually, the first part of our study is dedicated to examine the loving relationship between senex and his slave courtesan. In the second part of the dissertation, we present a translation into Portuguese of Plautus\' comedy from the original text, in Latin, which was found in A. Ernout\'s book published by the Société d\'Édition \"Les Belles Lettres\".

Pesquisa realizada com o propósito de levantar uma discussão sobre o caráter pedagógico da comédia e em especial da comédia barroca alemã. Através de um levantamento teórico e uma breve análise do Schimpfspiel do autor Andreas Gryphius, intitulado Absurda Comica oder Herr Peter Squenz, no qual são investigadas sua linguagem e figuras cômicas, procura-se comprovar o valor moralizante do texto, utilizando-o como exemplificação da comédia no período, a fim de evidenciar, acima de tudo, seu papel como disciplinador social. / The research was carried out to raise a discussion about the pedagogical nature of comedy and, in particular the German Baroque Comedy. A survey and a brief theoretical analysis of Andreas Gryphius Schimpfspiel, which is entitled Absurda Comica Oder Herr Peter Squenz were my starting point. Its language and its comic figures were isolated, in order to pursue the moralizing value of the text, used as an example of comedy presented in the Baroque period. The goal was to highlight above all the comedy social role as a disciplinarian.

Orientador: Larissa de Oliveira Neves Catalão / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituo de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T10:02:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Borba_RominaQuadros_M.pdf: 711499 bytes, checksum: b97d52c47183b4a4f06fe2066c08d5af (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Tendo em vista a relevância do trabalho de Ariano Villar Suassuna para a dramaturgia e literatura nacionais, este projeto visou abordar os aspectos estéticos ligados à cultura popular brasileira, que trazem reminiscências medievais e da Renascença, na obra teatral deste autor. Sendo escritor de formação popular, baseada em tradições orais e folhetos da literatura de cordel nordestina, mas também um acadêmico, Suassuna traz em sua poética elementos destes dois universos, e abarca em sua obra um leque de manifestações da cultura e do teatro medievais - como as cavalhadas, as festas religiosas, o teatro de rua, o auto, a farsa, o romance de cavalaria, a lenda do Santo Graal, entre outras. A meta principal do projeto foi avaliar como se dá essa transposição. No caso, o enfoque foi dado sobre os "palhaços" de Ariano - personagens narradores, derivados do Arlequim da Commedia dell'Arte, que, através de suas espertezas, conduzem as histórias do autor / Abstract: Considering the relevance of Ariano Villar Suassuna's playwriting to Brazilian dramaturgy, this dissertation aims to analyze the esthetical aspects of Brazilian popular culture, which carries medieval and Reinassance reminiscences in this author's theatrical work. As a writer who was raised surrounded by northeaster's Brazilian culture, based on "Cordel" literature and oral traditions, but also became an academician, Suassuna brings to his poetry elements of both distinct universes, and approaches to his compositions manifestations of medieval culture an theater such as "cavalhadas", religious celebrations, street act, the "auto", the farce, the cavalry romance, Holy Grail's legend, among others. Our main goal was to evaluate how this transposition occurs. We focused over Ariano's "clowns"- narrator characters, derived from the "Harlequin" of Commedia dell'Arte, which, through their wits, conduct the author's stories / Mestrado / Artes Cenicas / Mestre em Artes

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This thesis argues that textual and historical analysis of The Carol Burnett Show reveals that the program utilized slapstick, women's comedy and feminist humor to create comedic parodies of television commercials, melodramas and women's films, and soap operas. Their television commercial parodies reflect Second Wave feminist critiques of media advertising contemporary with the program. Comparison of the work of early feminist film theorists and media critics to the program's parodies of film and soap opera reveal an interest in texts that address a female audience and that The Carol Burnett Show was making similar critiques to feminist media scholars in the years before it became a field of inquiry.

Roman Comedy is defined by the tensions between comic convention and humour’s ability to interrogate societal norms. The playwrights, Plautus and Terence, experimented with their generic restrictions to create unique and complexly structured plays that posed questions on personal and collective identity. This study identifies a critical framework of gender manipulation that shows how citizen men of comic plays transgressed traditional norms of masculinity on a relational, physical, and structural level. It is grounded on the idea that gender plays an integral role in constructing the self. Once characters transgress their gender, other aspects of their identity adjust accordingly until they assume a new social and comic role. I divide my analysis into three character studies from Plautus’ Menaechmi, Terence’s Eunuchus, and Plautus’ Casina. I argue that both playwrights follow the same pattern, where a citizen man performs a physical act of gender transgression in response to dissatisfaction with his emasculating relationship with a female counterpart. This act reveals tensions pertaining to cultural dissonance and citizenship, sexuality in the transition to adulthood, and the crisis of old age. It is followed by a structural manipulation that shifts character and narrative tropes to bring the play to some resolution. This study provides a new framework for investigating the relationship between character and narrative, as well as generic convention and comic subversion in Roman Comedy. It diverges from recent scholarship on comic gender roles to reveal the distinct ways that Plautus and Terence experimented with the patriarchal constructions of masculinity and femininity in addition to the binarism of gender. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / In the comic plays of 3rd- and 2nd-century BCE Rome, gender played an important role in the way that citizen men interacted with the world around them. This study identifies a pattern tracing how they were motivated to step outside the norms of traditional masculinity and how this performance affected their identities and plotlines. The pattern comprises three stages: emasculation from an overpowering woman, a physical change of clothes or scent in response to that emasculation, and a plot change to bring the play to a conclusion. The gendered instability experienced by these men at each stage exposes underlying tensions in cultural dissonance and citizenship, the role of sexuality in the transition to adulthood, and the crisis of old age. Investigations of the plays through this pattern reveal how the playwrights experimented with their genre and the impact they had in addressing the on-going concerns of their audiences.

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