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	Anime News Network - Fruits Basket (TV)
		Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Shoujo, Slice of Life, Supernatural
		Plot Summary: Tohru Honda is 16 year old orphaned girl who gets invited to live in the house of her classmate, the handsome boy Sohma Yuki, and his cousins, 16 year old Kyo and 27 year old Shigure.
		Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
	skuld.animenewsnetwork.com /encyclopedia/anime.php?id=348 (323 words)

	Heroic Drama Links
		American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Brief entry on heroic drama.
	www.theatrelinks.com /heroic.htm (20 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Broadview anthology of Restoration and early eighteenth-century English drama
		Concentrating on plays from the heyday of 1660-1737, it focuses especially on Restoration drama proper (1660-1688) and Revolution drama (1689-1714), with a smaller selection of plays from the early Georgian period (1715-1737) and a glimpse at the later Georgian period's "laughing comedy" (1770s and 80s).
		Among his many works on Restoration and eighteenth-century literature are Heroes and States: On the Ideology of Restoration Tragedy and Tricksters and Estates: On the Ideology of Restoration Comedy.
		It includes nine sub-genres (heroic romance, political tragedy, personal tragedy, tragicomic romance, social comedy, subversive comedy, corrective satire, menippean satire, and laughing comedy), with the preponderance of exposure given to the jewel of this theatre, its comedy.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1551112701 (20 words)

	Lamson Library » Blog Archive » The Social Mode Of Restoration Comedy, By Kathleen M. Lynch
		tags: english drama, english drama (comedy), english drama (comedy) — history and criticism, english drama &; restoration, 1660-1700 — history and criticism, history and criticism, lynch, kathleen martha, restoration, 1660-1700
		The Social Mode Of Restoration Comedy, By Kathleen M. Lynch
		The social mode of Restoration comedy, by Kathleen M. Lynch
	www.plymouth.edu /library/opac/record/1132462 (231 words)

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	www.epinions.com /Movies-Murray_Hamilton_actor (475 words)

	23rd Annual Young Artist Awards
		BEST PERFORMANCE IN A TV MOVIE (Comedy or Drama)
		BEST PERFORMANCE IN A TV SERIES (Comedy or Drama)
		ALEX D. BEST PERFORMANCE IN A TV MOVIE (Comedy or Drama)
	www.youngartistawards.org /noms23A.htm (475 words)

	§16. His dramatic genius. III. Middleton and Rowley. Vol. 6. The Drama to 1642, Part Two. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
		He became a remarkable dramatic poet; but he was not born to sing.
		Few of the plays are quite satisfactory all through; there is almost always some considerable flaw, in construction, in characterisation, or in aesthetic taste; yet hardly one of them can be neglected in our consideration of the dramatist’s work as a whole.
		With the heightening of emotion his style heightens, and as his comedy refines itself his verse becomes subtler.
	www.bartleby.com /216/0316.html (475 words)

	William Wycherley (1641-1715)
		William Wycherley, the typical Restoration dramatist, and one of the greatest masters of the comedy of repartee, was born about 1640 at Clive, near Shrewsbury, where for several generations his family had been settled on an estate yielding about £600 a year.
		It is, however, on his two last comedies, The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer, that Wycherley's fame must rest as a master of that comedy of repartee which, inaugerated by Etherege, and afterward brought to perfection by Congreve and Vanbrugh, supplanted the humoristic comedy of the Elizabethans.
		At the age of seventy-five he married a young girl, and is said to have done so in order to spite his nephew, the next in succession, knowing that he himself must shortly die and that the jointure would impoverish the estate.
	www.imagi-nation.com /moonstruck/clsc95.html (475 words)

	History Reports
		Thus was born the Restoration Tragedy and the Comedy of Manners.
		Later to be condemned for its flagrant lack of morals, restoration comedy remains a popular form of entertainment.
		It is in the Restoration Comedy, however, that the audience got a true picture of themselves.
	las.alfred.edu /~egl/grove/1998/egl313/reports/tomhistory.html (475 words)

	THE ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA & THEATRE HISTORY PAGE
		Sophocles' contribution to drama was the addition of a third actor and an emphasis on drama between humans rather than between humans and gods.
		Greek comedy had two periods: Old Comedy, represented by Cratinus and Aristophanes; and New Comedy, whose main exponent was Menander.
		Similarly, the word orchestra is derived from the Greek word for a platform between the raised stage and the audience on which the chorus was situated.
	anarchon.tripod.com /indexGREEKTH.html (4687 words)

	restoration drama - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		Drama from 1750 to 1800...neoclassicists and the Restoration playwrights in...gentler master of Restoration comedy.
		( Cablechannel executives, you read it here first.) The only...series of Mike Bullens quiet but oddly entertaining comedy- drama draws to a close, as Maggie prepares to take her family on...
		THE COMIC SPIRIT IN RESTORATION DRAMA THE COMIC SPIRIT IN RESTORATION DRAMA STUDIES IN THE COMEDY OF ETHEREGE...Professor Nettleton in his English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century has given us a...
	www.questia.com /search/restoration-drama (4687 words)

	Renaissance/Restoration Drama Syllabus
		From theories of drama (Aristotle, Donatus, and others) and Roman comedy, we will explore the motifs and dramatic strategies that later comedic writers employ and set these variations in several contexts (classical rhetoric being a prominent one).
		Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Authoritative Texts of the Country Wife, the Man of Mode, the Rover, the Way of the World, the Conscious Lovers, the School for Scandal: Contexts, 2nd edition (Norton Critical Edition; W.W. Norton and Company, 1997), ISBN: 0393963349
		Brian Corman, "Comedy" in The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre, 52-69 (reserve desk).
	www.lcc.gatech.edu /~cklestinec/Teaching/LCC3218.html (4687 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: A Companion to Restoration Drama (Blackwell Companions to Literature & Culture)
		The first situates the drama in its theatrical and social contexts and examines changing responses to Restoration drama from the eighteenth century to date, the second explores the wide range of dramatic genres, and the final section offers an introduction to the playwrights, including the first women dramatists.
		They examine well known genres such as Restoration sex comedy, in a new light, and explore other genres such as heroic plays, satirical comedy and sentimental 'she-tragedy', tragi-comedy and political tragedy.
		Subjects > Music, Stage & Screen > Performing Arts > Plays & Drama > 16th to 18th Century
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0631219234 (4687 words)

	British Women Playwrights around 1800
		Maria Edgeworth - Comic Dramas in Three Acts - closet [ Love and Law - (Comedy), The Two Guardians - (Comedy), and The Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrock - (Comedy)]
		Maria Edgeworth - The Knapsack - (Drama for Juveniles) - closet
		Joanna Baillie - Dramas - mostly closet [ Romiero, The Alienated Manor, Henriquez, The Martyr, The Separation, The Stripling, The Phantom, Enthusiasm, Witchcraft, The Homicide, The Bride, The Match ; 24 Feb - The Separation - (Tragedy)- Covent Garden; 19 Mar - Henriquez - (Tragedy)- Drury Lane]
	www.etang.umontreal.ca /bwp1800/chronology.html (4687 words)

	Dialect in Aristophanes and the Politics of Language in Ancient Greek Literature by Stephen Colvin at Questia Online Library
		Dee Is for DRAMA; Funnyman Jack Dee Isnt...Trades tackling both comedy and drama and is loving...keen to branch out from comedy now because "with stand-up...variety of meaty, serious drama roles lined up and is...acting as an easy option.
		What became known to theater historians as Old Comedy in ancient Greece was a series of loosely connected scenes (using a chorus and individual characters) in which a particular situation...
		His extant plays...central interest in Aeschylean drama is in situation and event...
	www.questia.com /library/book/dialect-in-aristophanes-and-the-politics-of-language-in-ancient-greek-literature-by-stephen-colvin.jsp (2026 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - The Office triumphs at TV Baftas
		Best Comedy Programme or Series went to 'Alistair McGowan's Big Impression', while Best Entertainment Programme or Series was 'I'm a Celebrity, Get me out of here'.
		ITV's 'Coronation Street' took Best Soap, while Best Drama Series went to 'Spooks', Best Single Drama was 'Conspiracy' and Best Drama Serial went to Channel 4's 'Shackleton'.
		Star and creator, Ricky Gervais, took the Best Comedy Performance prize, while the BBC 2 show was named Best Sitcom.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2003/0414/theoffice.html (2026 words)

	Lost Highway (Wide Screen) DVD
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		Allan Quatermain And The Lost City Of Gold
		Lost Highway - find the DVD at the cheapest price with Kelkoo
	dvdhq.co.uk /drama/9026929 (2026 words)

	Satyr play - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Satyric drama was one of the three varieties of Athenian drama (the other two being tragedy and comedy).
		This new kind of drama met with so much approval, and was so much developed by Pratinas himself, as well as by his son Aristeas, by Choerilus, by Aeschylus, and the dramatists who succeeded him, that it became the custom to act a satyric drama after a set of three tragedies.
		The dance of the chorus in the satyric drama was called slcinnls, and consisted of a fantastic kind of skipping and jumping.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Satyr_play (488 words)

	Restoration Drama
		The drama of Wycherley and Congreve was the reflection of a small section of life, and it was like life in the same sense that the mirage is like the oasis.
		The heroes of the Restoration comedies were lively gentlemen of the city, profligates and loose livers, with a strong tendency to make love to their neighbors' wives.
		It was this drama that kept the doors of the theater open and the love of the theater alive in the face of great public opposition.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/restoration_drama_001.html (2133 words)

	Television
		The module will analyse the verbal and non-verbal structures of three dominant forms : television drama, comedy and documentaries so as to assess how meaning is created on screen.
		Television drama will be considered in its various genres, from the prestigious individual work of the "authored play" such as Potter's, to the open-ended multiauthored popular soap.
		The work on comedy will address the craft of comedy, but will also consider how comedy is placed on television, the assumptions made as to suitability, taste, decency according to the time slot and the Channel.
	www.aber.ac.uk /~drawww/tvprog.html (2133 words)

	StandupCom Magazine: Are comedy courses worth the candle?
		Indeed, the drama graduates who turned to comedy in the eighties did so largely because of the collapse of fringe theatre (after withdrawal of public funding) - and certainly not as a result of any great comedic boost from university drama departments.
		The biggest growth area in comedy education has come in the form of journeymen comics teaching their craft, as they see it, to boost their income.
		STAND-UP COMEDY has been traditionally one area of show business where formal training has played a minimal part - and hands-on experience at the chalk face of entertainment counts for almost everything.
	www.wilco.dircon.co.uk /courses.htm (961 words)

	BBC - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia
		BBC Radio 4 (Non-musical entertainment such as drama, comedy, news programmes and factual programmes), previously the Home Service, formed in 1939 from the fusion of the prewar National and Regional Programmes.
		BBC ONE shows popular programming, including drama, comedies, documentaries, game shows and soap operas, covering a wide range of genres and regularly competes with ITV to become the channel with the highest ratings for that week.
		The BBC is also renowned for its production of costume dramas, such as Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle and contemporary social dramas such as Boys from the Blackstuff and Our Friends in the North.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /b/bb/bbc.html (4521 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.11.23
		CP properly aligns satyr play more closely with tragedy than with comedy but tends like most scholars to be troubled by references to current events or persons and by the use of coarse language, especially in 4th-century and Hellenistic plays considered possibly to be satyric.
		CP notes not only that satyr play distanced itself somewhat in the 4th century by sometimes being produced apart from tragedy but also that, with its references to contemporary events and persons, it came to resemble comedy.
		CP thinks it is probably satyric because of the unusual number of resolutions in comparison with Agathon's other fragments and because the decipherment of the letters might represent the satyric topos of puzzle solving.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-11-23.html (2053 words)

	Gregory W
		Before considering the satyric aspects of Aristophanes’ Anodos scene it is important to inspect the apparent “firewall,” in the realm of poetics and intertexuality that separates comedy and satyr-play.
		First I review all references to satyrs and satyric drama in the comic fragments and the extant plays.
		Comedy, however, appears as a rule to ignore the very existence of satyrs and satyr-play.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/04mtg/abstracts/Dobrov.html (342 words)

	Greek Theater
		Ancient Greeks from the 5th century BC onwards were fascinated by the question of the origins of tragedy and comedy.
		They were unsure of their exact origins, but Aristotle and a number of other writers proposed theories of how tragedy and comedy developed, and told stories about the people thought to be responsible for their development.
		Early Greek theaters were probably little more than open areas in city centers or next to hillsides where the audience, standing or sitting, could watch and listen to the chorus singing about the exploits of a god or hero.
	academic.reed.edu /humanities/110Tech/Theater.html (3005 words)

	drama, Western -> Greek Drama on Encyclopedia.com 2002
		Eventually, Aeschylus introduced a second actor to the drama and Sophocles a third, Sophocles' format being continued by Euripides, the last of the great classical Greek dramatists.
		According to Aristotle, Greek drama, or, more explicitly, Greek tragedy, originated in the dithyramb.
		Greek comedy is divided by scholars into Old Comedy (5th cent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/drama-we_greekdrama.asp (992 words)

	London Theatre Guide Home Page
		The domestic and political drama will open at the Comedy theatre on September 27, following a week of previews from September 20.
		Over the last 35 years, Crawford has established the pub theatre as one of the best regarded venues for new and experimental drama, and a place where forgotten or discarded works could be revived.
		This summer is a boon time for fans of Irish playwright Brian Friel; at the Comedy theatre Tom Courtenay is currently starring in The Home Place, while last night a revival of Frielâs 1979 piece, Aristocrats, opened at the Nationalâs Lyttelton theatre.
	www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk (992 words)

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