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comic relief

In literature and the media, a common device employed in serious texts to relieve tension, and sometimes to provide antithesis or irony as a comment on more serious action. One that provides all three is the ‘gravedigger’ scene in Shakespeare's Hamlet.



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These include an old but very ahead-of-his-time prescientist (Bernard Hill) who invents gunpowder, a contentious warlord (Michael Clarke Duncan) who comes around, a weaselly comic-relief sidekick (Grant Heslov) and a thieving-but-adorable street urchin (Tutu Sweeney).
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