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What kinds of humour does Aristophanes use in his plays? To what extent would a modern audience find his plays funny?
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Tosin Abdullai. CLASSICAL CIVILISATION COURSEWORK. What kinds of humour does Aristophanes use in his plays? To what extent would a modern audience find his plays funny? Points you may like to include: * Description, analysis and classification of the humour in the plays. * Definition of a "modern audience" Comparison of the appeal of the plays you have read In the course of the three plays we have studied, Aristophanes adopts various types of humour in reaching out to the audience in different ways. For instance satirical humour, sexual humour, visual humour, slapstick humour and various other types. These various kinds of humour are used to echo the themes, which are explored in these three plays. An example is the satirical humour in the Acharnians, which represents the exploitation in the city of Greece by the so-called foreign ambassadors. These various types of humour will appeal depending...
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