Discussion:
What is this word – why is it relevant to COMEDY.
Watch this film clip
1st impressions:
- Is it a funny scene?
- If so, who is it funny for – Silvio & Clarice or the Audience?
- What generates the comedy? (types of comedy – slap stick, language, exaggeration, role-reversal – acting against type?)
- Why is Silvio acting like this *(look at what happened in the scene before.)
- What is Smeraldina’s attitude to what she discovers?
- How does she behave?
- What quotes are memorable?
- Why is this RADICAL for the 18th century?