Lazzi

Source.

Lazzi are essentially "gags" or stock jokes which can be added into a commedia dell'arte play or performance in order to ensure the comic action keeps pace. Traditionally the writers and actors in a troupe would have lazzi memorized so that they could insert them where needed. This trick kept up in theater into the motion picture era, and some film and TV writers still use stock jokes to enhance their work.

Transcripts of Buster Keaton Films

A Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Allez Oop Around the World in 80 Days B Back Stage Ballonatic, The Battling Butler Beach Blanket Bingo Bell Boy, The Blacksmith, The Blue Blazes Boat, The Butcher Boy, The C Cameraman, The Chemist, The College Coney Island Convict 13 Cook, The Cops Country Hero, The D Daydreams Ditto Doughboys E E-flat Man, The Electric House, The F Film Forever and a Day Free and Easy Frozen North, The Funny Thing Happend on the Way to the Forum, A G Garage, The General, The General Nuisance Go West Goat, The God's Country Gold Ghost, The Good Night, Nurse! Grand Slam Opera H Hard Luck Haunted House Hayseed, The Hayseed Romance High Sign, The His Ex Marks the Spot His Wedding Night Hollywood Cavalcade Hollywood Revue of 1929 How to Stuff a Wild Bikini I In the Good Old Summertime Invader, The It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World J-K Jail Bait L Li'l Abner Limelight Lovable Cheat, The Love Nest, The Love Nest on Wheels, The

M Mixed MagicModerno Barba Azul, El Mooching Through Georgia Moonshine My Wife's Relations N Navigator, The Neighbors Nothing But Pleasure O Oh Doctor! One Week One-Run Elmer Our Hospitatlity Out West P Pajama Party Paleface, The Palooka From Paducah Paradise for Buster Pardon My Berth Marks Parlor, Bedroom, and Bath Passionate Plumber, The Pest from the West Playhouse, The R Railrodder, The Roi des Champs-Elysees Rough House, The S San Diego, I Love You Saphead, The Scarecrow, The Scribe, The Sergeant Deadhead Seven ChancesSherlock Jr. She's Oil Mine Sidewalks of New York So You Won't Squawk Speak Easily Spite Marriage Spook Speaks, The Steamboat Bill, Jr. Sunset Boulevard T Taming of the Snood Tars and Stripes Ten Girls Ago That Night With You That's the Spirit Three Ages, The Three on a Limb Timid Young Man, The Triumph of Lester Snapwell, The V Villain Still Pursued Her, The W War Italian Style What! No Beer?

Snuff, Exploitation, Mondo, Gore, Gross Out: Synopsises

Here is a database dedicated to itemizing the dramatic minutiae in which the antichrist tendencies of modern film-making find their anecdotal grounding. The obliteration of the body stands in thematically for where once there were trials of the soul.

Obviously, this is genre film, meant for very specific connoisseurs. Still, the plainest way to describe a theological (-ish)--non-specialized--interest in this queasy and unpleasant material is to make the case, as in hardcore pornography, that the struggles of the soul, for us moderns, needs a physical correspondence. Gore describes suffering.

Particularly useful if one has not the heart to see all these masterpieces of splenetic auteurs, but for some perverse reason must still bear witness.

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N Horror Tropes on the often droll TV tropes site contains various generic descriptions. N

Golden Era Horror Comics Online

The Horrors of it All

c/f Best Horror Comics

c/f Specter Girl's Crypt of Postcode Horror

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night by Anonymous (Translator - Burton, Richard Francis)

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Sources for Shakespeare

Source.

Below is an incomplete library of literary borrowings available online which informed the dramatist-poet's plays.

Adding more clutter to the commentaries on Shakespeare is much like writing an ode to the Gideon Bible then placing it in a motel drawer. I`ll avoid it.

Medieval Morality Plays
Everyman

Plutrach
Plutarch, Plutarch’s Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North in Ten Volumes (1579) - The edition actually used by Shakespeare.
Plutrach's Lives as translated by John Dryden. Slightly more readable and modern edition.


Saxo Grammaticus
The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned").

Hector Boethius
Hector Boethius, Scotorum Historia (1575 version).

Reginald Scot
Reginald Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft


King James I
Daemonologie 1599 by King James I

Seneca
Seneca's Tragedies in English
Original texts of Seneca's works at 'The Latin Library'
Works by Seneca the Younger at Project Gutenberg
Essays by Seneca at Quotidiana.org
Seneca's essays in English (at Stoics.com)
Many quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca via brainyquote.com.
List of commentaries of Seneca's Letters
Incunabula (1478) of Seneca's works in the McCune Collection
Seneca on Anger: written and presented by Alain de Botton
SORGLL: Seneca, Thyestes 766-804, read by Katharina Volk, Columbia University. Society for the Oral reading of Greek and Latin Literature (SORGLL)

Leo Africanus
Leo Africanus' A Geograczphical History of Africa

Ovid
The Fifteen Books of Ovid's Metamorphoses, 1567- Arthur Golding

Tacitus
The Annals by Tacitus

c/f Take a Virtual Tour of the Dictionary Shakespeare May Have Owned and Annotated