The Comic Incongruity
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- 'The Comic Incongruity'
- What is it about?
- The contrasts between comedy and tragedy
- Kerr defines some of the essential qualities of comedy
- Comedy reminds up of the limitations of life
- Walter Kerr
- Key Quotes
- "Tragedy speaks always of freedom. Comedy will speak of nothing limitation"
- Limitation of the love triangle - "My master loves dealry, and I (poor monster) fond as much on him/ as she seems to dote on me"
- "Comedy depends upon tragedy because it has no disparity with which to shock us"
- "It points to the thousand ways the admittedly free man is not free. It keeps an eco of freedom about, because if it did not there would be no joke"
- Olivia (about Malvolio) "he hath been most notoriously abused"
- "Laughter always erupts precisely as the situation becomes hopeless"
- Hopeless love due to doubling + disguise - hopeless hope for Malvolio
- We are serious so long there is a way out. Comedy occurs when there is no way out"
- Malvolio subplot - Act 4, Scene 2 -"Sir Topas, Sir Topas, good Sir Topas!' - beggings
- "Tragedy speaks always of freedom. Comedy will speak of nothing limitation"
- What is it about?
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