english assessment help! (1 Viewer)

[**freakstar87**]

can anyone here help me on this question in which i need to do an exposition to prepare for an english assessment in-class task based on the shakespearean play much ado about nothing? please???
here's the question:

How does Shakespeare produce humour in his romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing?

thanx if you do know anything

 

[felafel]

what are you main points

 

[**freakstar87**]

something like this. i'm not sure if this is what you've meant

your response should include a discussion of the extent to which this play adheres to the conventionsof Shakespearean comedy and must show evidence of some critical reading

so far my main point has been
1. the use of wit in producing verbal humour;
2. dogberry's malapropisms producing slapstick humour;
3. how don john doesn't have a motive on why he's a 'bastard' because he was 'born like it'.

not sure if that's conventions or something in comedy but i'll look more into my current given notes. but my teacher said we need to find more notes and the ones i've found on the net so far have been crap.

3-4 A4 pages discussing the whole friggin thing is recommended to be done in 45 minutes.

 

[**freakstar87**]

anybody???

 

[Sarah168]

hmmm i know ur in yr 11 but maybe the english forums would be a good place to go

 

[santaslayer]

ur 3 points are probably enuff to produce a topnotch essay

 

[*girl04*]

ahhhh indeed a top notch essay!

 

[sam04u]

Find something ironic and explain how it is portrayed humourously. (boring ass english teachers will agree, and thats an extra point for you.)

ps: read below

irony: something unexpected sort of like an oxymoron in life
oxymoron:Two words used together which have completely different meanings but make a meaning when used together.

pss: read below (under the line)

 

[sam04u]

the part highlighted by caps

 

[cko]

is "much ado about nothing" the one with the twin brother and sister who got shipwrecked and thought the other was dead? Coz u can say mistaken identity is one humour technique?

 

[**freakstar87**]

oh yeah that i know. no it's from twelfth night. the mistaken identity in MAAN (can't bother writing the whole name now) is shown when the 'love-sick' guy(claudio) and his equally upper-class friend(don pedro) thought that his fiancee's servent who was sleeping with another man, was his fiancee because of a similar physical feature. another 'mistaken identity' in MAAN is shown through the masked ball earlier in the play.

 

[glycerine]

remember that the majority of essays (i'm assuming this is a 1500 worder, that seems to be the average) are really not that long. you don't want to have too many thesis points, for this kind of structure, you should have three points... which you already have. this is just generalised advice, i don't know anything about the play. try sparknotes.com et al