Author Question: At the dress rehearsal, A. the costume designer's work is finished. B. practical problems with ... (Read 59 times)

jerry coleman · **on:** Aug 27, 2018

At the dress rehearsal,

A. the costume designer's work is finished.
B. practical problems with costumes are revealed.
C. the actors are fitted and measured for their costumes.
D. wardrobe staff takes over for the costume designer.

Question 2

Citing specific examples, show how playwrights have used comedy as a means of critiquing society in its own time.

What will be an ideal response?

ghepp · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 27, 2018

Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

Aristophanes, the first great comic writer in the Western tradition, turned his comic lens on the artists, philosophers, politicians, and even the gods of his time. Each of his plays begins with a prologue addressed to the audience to get them in the comic mood, followed by a debate over some current issue of interest that sets out the comic premise for the play. Many of the comedies of Aristophanes satirize the social and political concerns of an Athenian society stressed by the seemingly endless Peloponnesian War.