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Sarcasm is the caustic use of words, often in a humorous way, to mock someone or something. [1] Sarcasm may employ ambivalence, [2] although it is not necessarily ...
Metaphysical poetry as a style was prevalent in the time of English playwright William Shakespeare, who admonished pretension with the phrase "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit". [3] It may combine word play with conceptual thinking, as a kind of verbal display requiring attention, without intending to be laugh-out-loud funny. Indeed wit ...
"Friends, Romans": Orson Welles' Broadway production of Caesar (1937), a modern-dress production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare.
"Sarcasm does not necessarily involve irony and irony has often no touch of sarcasm". [85] Irony: "A figure of speech in which the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used; usually taking the form of sarcasm or ridicule in which laudatory expressions are used to imply condemnation or contempt". [86]
The first page of All's Well, that Ends Well from the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623. All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare, published in the First Folio in 1623, where it is listed among the comedies. There is a debate regarding the dating of the composition of the play, with possible dates ranging ...
Fulford goes on to note with some irony the ready use—the glad suffering—of fools by Shakespeare, who elevated their roles, admittedly non-Pauline, [5] throughout his literary corpus. In his highly regarded early literary biography of Charles Dickens, G.K. Chesterton commented on the interpretation of St. Paul's "suffer fools gladly":
Harsh sarcasm and bullying, though with the bully usually coming off worse than the victim – typified by: On the Buses, Arthur toward his wife, Olive, and Jack and Stan towards their boss Blakey; Blackadder, Edmund Blackadder toward his sidekick, Baldrick; The Young Ones, comedy TV series; Fawlty Towers, Basil Fawlty toward his waiter, Manuel
'That, of course, is the great secret of the successful fool – that he is no fool at all.' Isaac Asimov, Guide to Shakespeare. [4]One scholar agrees that the clowning in Shakespeare's plays may have been intended as "an emotional vacation from the more serious business of the main action," in other words, comic relief. [5]