PPT-Dante’s “Divine Comedy”

Italian Divina Commedia Dante Alighieri 12651321 56 years Nickname The Supreme Poet il Sommo Poeta Born in Florence Italy Florence Not much is known about Dantes education and it is presumed he studied at home or in a chapter school attached to a church or monastery in Florence . brPage 1br Divine Consign Divine Consign Divine Consign Divine Consign Divine Consign Divine Consign Consignor Item Description Size comcoynessandcrimeinrestorat ioncomedyfreedownload Comedy. We call cultural content meant primarily to generate mirth “comedy”. All genres include comedic elements. Some argue that any story where the low-born or put-upon rise to a higher station and a better end is a comedy. Canto XII. Professor Andrea . Mazzucchi. Università. . di. Napoli ‘Federico II’. Critical treatments of Inferno Canto 12 have expressed serious reservations, and even quite negative assessments, that it is discordant in tone and lacks organic structure. . Pre-Reading Study Guide. By . PresenterMedia.com. Who was Dante Alighieri?. Dante, of course, is the author of . The Divine Comedy. . He was born a Roman Catholic in Florence in 1265 C.E. . He died of malaria in Ravenna, Italy, in 1321 (the night of Sept. 13-14). . “. It is . clear. . that. . humour. is . far more superior . than. humor.” . – . Oscar Wilde. BRITISH COMEDY: . THE FOUR S’S. STAND-UP COMEDY. SKETCH. SITCOM. SATIRE. STAND-UP COMEDY. a . Questions of gennre - Folio edition, 1623. Mixture of comic and tragic . elements. ‘comic relief’ in tragedies . t. he gravedigger . in Hamlet, . the . Fool in . King Lear. , . Falstaff . in . Henry IV. By Robert Sobel. Have You Ever Wondered What Hell Looks Like?. Ordinary World. “Born . in 1265 to a family with a history of involvement in the complex Florentine political . scene*...”. “When . Definition of Comedy. Comedy . is a genre of film that features light hearted stories designed to entertain and amuse an audience with . humour. .. Comedy . is one of the oldest genres in film. In fact some of the first silent movies were comedies.. Inferno. Visions of Hell. The GREEK Underworld. Rulers: Hades and Persephone. Location. Beneath secret places of earth (. Iliad. ). Over edge of world, across ocean (. Odyssey. ). Various entrances in caverns & deep lakes (later poetry). Dr. JB. MC Eli. Count Zach. Czar Phillip. Definition of Humor. A comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement.. Comic: of, pertaining to, or characterized by comedy. Absurd: utterly or obviously senseless, contrary to all reason or common sense. A play may be a tragedy, a comedy, or, in modern drama, a mixture of the two.. A . tragedy. depicts serious and important events that end unhappily. . A . comedy. ends happily. Although most comedies are funny, they may also make us think and question.. Aristotle defined comedy as one of two main forms of drama—comedy and tragedy. Most contemporary views see comedy as a form of humorous text. Why are we amused?. Relief theory. Reducing physiological tension caused by the self-censoring of the baser instincts (Freud). Canto 1: The Dark Wood of Error. Read handout for Canto 1 (lines 1-60). Answer the following question:. Dante says in line 12 of Canto 1 that he has wandered from the “True Way.” If the “Dark Wood of Error” is a symbol of worldliness, what does the True Way represent? On an allegorical level, what might the three animals that try to force Dante back into the Dark Wood represent?.