Types of Comedy in Frogs
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- Types of Comedy in Frogs
- Prologue
- visual comedy
- slapstick
- overloaded slave riding a donkey
- props
- overloaded slave riding a donkey
- Dionysus dressed as Heracles
- Dionysus is also fat
- Dionysus hammering Heracles' door
- Dionysus rowing the boat along the Styx - doesn't know how to do it
- both panicking and being scared - gestures
- slapstick
- verbal, wit and banter
- they argue who's doing the work
- Poking fun about Heracles' love of food and seems uncultured
- repitition
- insult humour
- contempory references eg playwrites and politicians
- 'fatty'
- competition between Dionysus and the Frog chorus: surreal
- innuendos and scatological humour
- humour about children - unacceptable for a modern audience
- Irony
- Dionysus is a god - can't die
- what is a corpse going to do with money? surreal comedy
- pretends he's a good fighter
- visual comedy
- Episode 1
- Visual/ Physical humour
- The dressing scene
- 1. Aeacus leaves to get his thugs
- Dio --> Xanthias
- 2. the maid - offers food and girls
- Xanthias --> Dio
- 3. the innkeepers - threatens to get Cleon to take him to court
- Dio --> Xanthias
- if Dio is Heracles, something bad will happen, but Xanth gets good things
- 1. Aeacus leaves to get his thugs
- The beating scene
- Aeacus returns to beat 'Heracles' (Xanthias)
- both try to hide that they are in pain
- gets more ridiculous, funny and ingenious
- puns
- Aaaa-pollo
- Po...sei...don!
- The dressing scene
- Verbal
- Aeacus insults Dionysus - doesn't realise that this isn't Heracles
- Irony
- scared to know Pluto's door
- everyone thinks that Dio/Xan is Heracles
- as a god, Dio shouldn't feel pain
- Scatilogical
- I made a craprifice
- Visual/ Physical humour
- Episode 2/Agon
- Slave talk
- Xanthias and a slave ***** about their masters, how they like to curse them behind their back etc
- funny to some, worrying for masters in the audience
- Xanthias and a slave ***** about their masters, how they like to curse them behind their back etc
- Childish/Petty/Insults
- A --> E = you grocer's sprout
- A --> D = you complete ignoramus
- E = Oh, only a dozen things
- (about one of Aes's prologues)
- E = and each one contains 20 mistakes
- A --> D you pumped up windbag
- verbal
- Dionysus provides comic relief by being idiotic
- Shut up.
- That's good by Hermes; although I don't understand a word you're saying
- Parody each others works
- Lost his little bottle
- oh dear, another hit from that bottle again
- That's good by Hermes; although I don't understand a word you're saying
- oh dear, another hit from that bottle again
- Pluto names contempory Athenians, saying he wants them to come to the Underworld (die)
- Dionysus provides comic relief by being idiotic
- physical/ visible
- scales to weigh their words
- Slave talk
- Prologue
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