Reverse Sheep game Part 3

[Rod Paradise]

The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, first published in the First Folio in 1623. Although it was listed as a comedy when it first appeared, some modern editors have relabeled the play a romance.

If he wrote it as a comedy .... then its a fkin comedy

It's not fkin funny.

Have you watched Austin Powers - not funny either....

[AndrewT]

FML - internet broken. Have to try and follow this on my phone.

[Robert HM]

FML - internet broken. Have to try and follow this on my phone.

post more graphics peeps

[matt674]

Shakespeare and comedy in the same sentence

ppffffffffffffffff

[kinboshi]

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/winterstale/section8.rhtml

[kinboshi]

"The story itself is filled with events not typically found in comic works (e.g., the sudden death of a child and the fatal savaging of a man by a bear); likewise, the value system of the first three acts and the fifth extends beyond the social concerns that are the usual purview of comedy to include the ethical and metaphysical assumptions informing tragedy. Such factors, among others, may be responsible for the rivalry between two terms that for over a century have vied for preeminence in the matter of the play’s classification: romance and tragicomedy."

[Rod Paradise]

"The story itself is filled with events not typically found in comic works (e.g., the sudden death of a child and the fatal savaging of a man by a bear); likewise, the value system of the first three acts and the fifth extends beyond the social concerns that are the usual purview of comedy to include the ethical and metaphysical assumptions informing tragedy. Such factors, among others, may be responsible for the rivalry between two terms that for over a century have vied for preeminence in the matter of the play’s classification: romance and tragicomedy."

I know (sick) jokes about both.....

[Laxie]

Kin owns stock in google

[kinboshi]

I had to write a fkin essay in my English A-Level about the elements of tragedy and comedy in The Winter's Tale that make up the 'tragicomedy' or romance.  It wasn't funny, it's not a tragedy, it's a tragicomedy.

"In the late nineteenth century Edward Dowden became the first to classify The Winter’s Tale and those final plays usually grouped with it (Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Tempest) as romances.10 What Dowden seems to have had in mind were stories of exotic adventure and travel, shipwrecks, spiritual and/or moral quests, romantic love, reunions of lovers and families long separated, virtue tested and proved triumphant, and nobility hidden and then discovered – all unfolding in a world familiar with supernatural forces, wide-ranging marvels, magic, and enchantment. This romance tradition, primarily available to Shakespeare in narrative form,11 also included the dramatic as in the medieval saint’s play of trial and conversion, a genre replete with one marvel after another.12 If Shakespeare’s final dramas are understood as spiritual journeys ending in self-discovery by the central character,13 then the saint’s play (or miracle play, as it is sometimes called), ‘popularly performed late'."

[Robert HM]

"The story itself is filled with events not typically found in comic works (e.g., the sudden death of a child and the fatal savaging of a man by a bear); likewise, the value system of the first three acts and the fifth extends beyond the social concerns that are the usual purview of comedy to include the ethical and metaphysical assumptions informing tragedy. Such factors, among others, may be responsible for the rivalry between two terms that for over a century have vied for preeminence in the matter of the play’s classification: romance and tragicomedy."

Vast majority have classed it as a comedy, as did the author, some experts class it as tragicomedy. It's a comedy. Appeal denied. 2 points kinboshi*, 1 ItsMrAlex2u

*About the same for your essay.

[Rod Paradise]

I had to write a fkin essay in my English A-Level about the elements of tragedy and comedy in The Winter's Tale that make up the 'tragicomedy' or romance.  It wasn't funny, it's not a tragedy, it's a tragicomedy.

"In the late nineteenth century Edward Dowden became the first to classify The Winter’s Tale and those final plays usually grouped with it (Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Tempest) as romances.10 What Dowden seems to have had in mind were stories of exotic adventure and travel, shipwrecks, spiritual and/or moral quests, romantic love, reunions of lovers and families long separated, virtue tested and proved triumphant, and nobility hidden and then discovered – all unfolding in a world familiar with supernatural forces, wide-ranging marvels, magic, and enchantment. This romance tradition, primarily available to Shakespeare in narrative form,11 also included the dramatic as in the medieval saint’s play of trial and conversion, a genre replete with one marvel after another.12 If Shakespeare’s final dramas are understood as spiritual journeys ending in self-discovery by the central character,13 then the saint’s play (or miracle play, as it is sometimes called), ‘popularly performed late'."

Debate winner IMHO.

GTFO Boshi

[Rod Paradise]

"The story itself is filled with events not typically found in comic works (e.g., the sudden death of a child and the fatal savaging of a man by a bear); likewise, the value system of the first three acts and the fifth extends beyond the social concerns that are the usual purview of comedy to include the ethical and metaphysical assumptions informing tragedy. Such factors, among others, may be responsible for the rivalry between two terms that for over a century have vied for preeminence in the matter of the play’s classification: romance and tragicomedy."

Vast majority have classed it as a comedy, as did the author, some experts class it as tragicomedy. It's a comedy. Appeal denied. 2 points kinboshi*, 1 ItsMrAlex2u

*About the same for your essay.

Well played the quizmaster.

[AndrewT]

Yay I'm back.

Appeal denied. 2 points kinboshi*, 1 ItsMrAlex2u

Quiz fulfilling expectation thus far.

Though I now regret not submitting The Taming of the Hippo as an answer.

[suzanne]

Its a tragedy that there is only 6 reged for the equal chance feeder, 2 more needed  

[kinboshi]

http://media.www.marquettetribune.org/media/storage/paper1130/news/2008/04/10/Marquee/Shakespeares.a.Winters.Tale.Now.Playing.At.Helfaer.Theatre-3310474.shtml