Description |
xiv, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Crab's pedigree / Richard Beadle -- The comedian as the character C / Stephen Orgel -- Mixed verse and prose in Shakespearean comedy / Jonas Barish -- Much ado about nothing : the unsociable comedy / Barbara Everett -- Laughter, forgetting and Shakespeare / Adrian Poole -- Enigmatic Ben Jonson / John Creaser -- A new way to pay old debts : Massinger's grim comedy / Martin Butler -- ̀€Thous teachest me humanitie' : Thomas Heywood's The English traveller / Richard Rowland -- Etherege's She would if she could : comedy, complaisance and anti-climax / Michael Cordner -- Rhyming as comedy : body, ghost, and banquet / Gillian Beer -- Wordsworthian comedy / Jonathan Wordsworth -- Apeing romanticism / Jonathan Bate -- A complete history of comic noses / John Kerrigan -- Noel Coward and comic geometry / Peter Holland -- Ludwig Wittgenstein and the comedy of errors / Eric Griffiths. |
Subject |
English drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism.
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Indexed Term |
Comedy History |
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England |
Added Author |
Cordner, Michael.
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Holland, Peter, 1951-
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Kerrigan, John.
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ISBN |
0521419174 hardback |
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9780521419178 hardback |
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