Comic Concepts

Question 1

name the comic concepts

Answer 1

Marriage, love and romance
Subversion
Disguise and deception; doubles
Parody (of Victorian melodrama)
Comic structure: the journey to happiness; comic resolution
Complex plotting
‘Green world’ - a place of disorder and confusion
Masters and servants; upper and lower classes
Mistaken identity
Satire
Farce, slapstick and physical comedy
Confusion and misunderstanding
Comic rivalry
Stock comic characters - heroes, villain, ingenue, spinster, romantic couples