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Author Rayner, Alice.

Title Comic persuasion : moral structure in British comedy from Shakespeare to Stoppard / Alice Rayner.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1987]
©1987

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  822.9 R21    Check Shelf
Description ix, 169 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Moral fiction and comic delight -- Shakespeare's Poesis: use and delight in Utopia -- Jonson's Poesis: Use and delight in dystopia -- Wycherley's aphorism: delight in dystopia -- Cumberland and Steele's aphorism: use in Utopia -- Shaw's paradox: use in dystopia -- Stoppard's paradox: delight in Utopia -- Forms of delight.
Subject English drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism.
Literature and morals -- Great Britain.
Utopias in literature.
Indexed Term Drama in English Comedies, 1558-1986 - Critical studies
ISBN 0520059174 alkaline paper
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