THE LOVERS -MAKING COMEDY FROM THE SERIOUS

What is this word – why is it relevant to COMEDY.

Listen to them.

Watch this film clip

1st impressions:

  1. Is it a funny scene?
  2. If so, who is it funny for – Silvio & Clarice or the Audience?
  3. What generates the comedy? (types of comedy – slap stick, language, exaggeration, role-reversal – acting against type?)
  4. Why is Silvio acting like this *(look at what happened in the scene before.)
  5. What is Smeraldina’s attitude to what she discovers?
  6. How does she behave?
  7. What quotes are memorable?
  8. Why is this RADICAL for the 18th century?