Citing specific examples, show how playwrights have used comedy as a means of critiquing society in its own time
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• 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.
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Discuss the differences between motivated sounds and environmental sounds. Could the same sound effect be a motivated sound in one context, and an environmental sound in another context? For instance, consider contexts that might make a gunshot, a door slamming, or a car crunching on gravel a motivated sound. Then discuss a context in which they might be environmental sounds.
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The Greek form of "Joshua" is _______.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).