How does shakespeare provide comic relief in scene act 1?

Answer 1

There is no scene 5 in Act 4 of Macbeth.

Answer 2

The Porter is the comic relief (starting act 2 scene 3). While most of what he says is difficult for us modern people to understand, I'm sure he brought the house down in Shakespeare's day! And we still use his humor today - The porter was the first to tell a knock - knock joke.

Answer 3

Shakespeare uses comic relief by adding in comic scenes after particularly tense or 'full on' scenes. he uses it for numerous reasons

1. to break the tension and to prevent his audience for becoming too bored and over whelmed with serious content

2. to give his main characters a chance to have a break from particularly intense acting scenes (the majority of comic relief scenes are played by less important characters)

3. to make his plays more accessible to the lower class, the people who would have stood in the stalls to watch his plays would have been the uneducated lower class, the comic scenes reiterate the main messages within his plays but in an easier to follow and more fun way.

Answer 4

The gravedigger scene, Act V, Scene 1 is partly comic, containing the comic gravediggers and their chop logic and also the gravedigger's conversation with Hamlet. There is also a good deal of comedy in Act V Scene 2 with the fop Osric, who Hamlet talks circles around. Polonius is also a pretty funny character, particularly when he loses the train of his own thought with Reynaldo in Act II Scene 1, and in Act II Scene 2 where he first embarks on a tedious oration, moving Gertrude to explode "More matter with less art!", then attempts to engage Hamlet in a verbal Fencing match which he hopelessly loses, then returns later to describe all of the different forms of drama the actors can perform. He is constantly the butt of Hamlet's scorn and humour.

Answer 5

You need to specify which play. All of his plays had at least one scene in Act 1

Answer 6

no one :D

Answer 7

The nurse.