1. Satyr Plays: These short plays were performed between the acts of tragedies and made fun of the plight
of the tragedy's characters. The satyrs were mythical half-human, half-goat figures and actors in these
plays wore large phalluses for comic effect. Few examples of these plays survive. They are classified by
some authors as tragicomic, or comedy dramas.
Mime
Children use only facial expressions and body language to pass on a
message tcript to the rest of the class.
Satire
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1867 edition of Punch, a ground-breaking British magazine of popular humour, including a great
deal of satire of the contemporary, social, and political scene.
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Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies,
abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals,
corporations, government or society itself, into improvement.[1]
Although satire is usually meant
4. to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw
attention to both particular and wider issues in society.
A feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm—"in satire, irony is militant"[2]
—but parody,
burlesque, exaggeration,[3]
juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all
frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes
to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack.
Vaudeville
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A promotional poster for the Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles (1894), showing dancers, clowns,
trapeze artists and costumed dogs
Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment. It was especially popular in the United
States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. A typical vaudeville performance
is made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of
acts have included popular and classical musicians, singers, dancers, comedians, trained animals,
magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or
scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies. A vaudeville performer
is often referred to as a "vaudevillian".
Vaudeville developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows,
dime museums, and literary American burlesque. Called "the heart of American show business,"
vaudeville was one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America for several
decades.[1]
5. svaudeville
[vawd-vil, vohd-, vaw-duh-]
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noun
1.
theatrical entertainment consisting of a number of individual performances, acts, or mixed
numbers, as by comedians, singers, dancers, acrobats, and magicians.
Compare variety (def 9).
2.
a theatrical piece of light or amusing character, interspersed with songs and dances.
3.
a satirical cabaret song.
vaudeville
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Media Studies
noun a type of entertainment popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries consisting of
singing, dancing and comedy acts
noun a comic play with songs and dances
Theater
A US form of variety entertainment that was popularin the late 19th and early 20th century.
The name, which is French in origin, may be a corruption ofvaux-de-vire (songs of the
Vire), referring to a region ofNormandy famous for satirical songs in the 15th century.
An alternativederivation is from vaux des villes (songs of the city streets).In the late 17th
century the French critic Boileau applied the termto satirical ballads and to the dumb
shows (comédies envaudeville) presented in Paris's booth theaters. It later cameto be
applied to the popular musical dramas presented at the Opéra-Comiqueand other venues.
In the later 19th century, the term vaudeville came to beused of variety performances,
especially in America, where a traditionof beer-hall entertainment had developed in
parallel to the musichall in Britain. Other influences on early US vaudeville
includedminstrel shows, medicine shows, and 'dime museums'of freaks and trained
animals, such as P. T. Barnum's AmericanMuseum in New York. The first regular
6. vaudeville programmes were presentedat the Franklin Theatre, New York, in 1842. Like
US burlesque,vaudeville remained rather suspect until Tony Pastor created the
"straight,clean variety show" in the 1860s at New York's American Theatre.A typical bill
would include juggling, a musical act, trained animals,a dramatic skit, a comedy sketch,
an acrobatic act, and a magic performance.At the turn of the century, short films would
often be shown to clearthe house. By this time vaudeville was big business: the agency
ofB. F. Keith and Edward Franklin Albee booked acts for 400 theaterseast of Chicago,
while Martin Beck ran the Orpheum circuit of theaterswith houses from Chicago to
California. After the advent of talkingpictures in 1927, however, vaudeville performers
began to dwindleinto support acts for films. New York's Palace Theatre, thenation's top
vaudeville house, closed in 1932.
Vaudeville produced many of America's early film stars andradio performers, some of
whom survived into the television era. Theimpressive list includes Danny Kaye, Harry
Houdini, Al Jolson, SophieTucker, W. C. Fields, Will Rogers, Jimmy Durante, Burns and
Allen,the Marx Brothers, and the Three Stooges. Europeans introduced tothe US
audience through vaudeville included Harry Lauder and VestaVictoria.
Origin & History of “vaudeville”
In 15th-century France there was a fashion for songs from the valley of the Vire, in the Calvados region
of Normandy (particularly popular, apparently, were the satirical songs composed by a local fuller,
Olivier Basselin). they were known as chansons du Vau de Vire ‘songs of the valley of the Vire’, which
became shortened to vaudevire, and this was later altered to vaudeville. It was originally used in English
for a ‘popular song’; the application to ‘light variety entertainment’ did not emerge until the early 19th
century.
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mime
noun uk /maɪm/ us
› [U] the act of using movements of your hands and body, and expressions on your face, without speech,
to communicate emotions and actions or to tell a story: The first scene was performed in mime.› [C] a
short play without speech
mime
verb [I or T] uk /maɪm/ us
› to act or tell a story in mime: The whole of the banquet scene is mimed.› to pretend to sing, play, or
say something without making any sound: Most of the bands that appear on the show just mime to a
recording of their songs. He was miming something at me across the room
satire
[sat-ahyuh r]
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noun
1.
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly,
etc.
2.
a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn,
derision, or ridicule.
3.
a literary genre comprising such compositions.
mime
[mahym, meem]
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noun
1.
the art or technique of portraying a character, mood, idea, or narration by gestures and bodily
movements; pantomime.
2.
an actor who specializes in this art.
3.
an ancient Greek or Roman farce that depended for effect largely upon ludicrous actions and
gestures.
4.
a player in such a farce.
5.
mimic (def 4).
6.
a jester, clown, or comedian.
verb (used with object), mimed, miming.
7.
to mimic.
8.
to act in mime.
verb (used without object), mimed, miming.
9.
to play a part by mime or mimicry.
satire Line breaks: sat¦ire
Pronunciation: /ˈsatʌɪə/
Definition of satire in English:
noun
[mass noun]
1The use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices,
particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues: the crude satire seems to be
directed at the fashionable protest singers of the time
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1.1 [count noun] A play, novel, film, or other work which uses satire: a stinging satire on American
politics
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9. 1.2A genre of literature characterized by the use of satire: a number of articles on Elizabethan satire
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1.3 [count noun] (In Latin literature) a literary miscellany, especially a poem ridiculing prevalent vices or
follies.
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Early 16th century: from French, or from Latin satira, later form of satura 'poetic medley'.
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satirist
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Pronunciation: /ˈsatərɪst/
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vaudevillian
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vaude·vil·lian
(vôd-vĭl′yən, vōd-, vô′də-)
n.
One, especially a performer, who works in vaudeville.
