| Description |
288 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Harbrace sourcebooks
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography. |
| Contents |
Eight comedies. The birds / Aristophanes -- Twelfth night, or, What you will / William Shakespeare -- The misanthrope / Molière -- The critic, or, A tragedy rehearsed / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- A wedding, or, A joke in one act / Anton Chekhov -- The man of destiny / George Bernard Shaw -- The importance of being earnest / Oscar Wilde -- A phoenix too frequent / Christopher Fry. |
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Source and supplementary material. The poet and his audience / Victor Ehrenberg -- The Commedia dell'arte / Allardyce Nicoll -- Twelfth night / Kenneth Muir -- The satyricon / Petronius. |
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Some theories of comedy. Poetics : comedy / Aristotle -- Some prefatory words on comedy / Louis Kronenberger -- Concerning humour in comedy / William Congreve -- Restoration comedy / Bonamy Dobrée -- On comedy and the uses of the comic spirit / George Meredith -- Laughter / Henri Bergson -- Wit and its relation to the unconscious / Sigmund Freud -- The argument of comedy / Northrop Frye -- The great dramatic forms : the comic rhythm / Susanne K. Langer. |
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Criticism. from The origin of Attic comedy / Francis M. Cornford -- from The people of Aristophanes / Victor Ehrenberg -- The masks of Twelfth night / Joseph H. Summers -- M. Rousseau to M. D'Alembert / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Le misanthrope / Martin Turnell -- Satiric strategy in The importance of being earnest / Otto Reinert. |
| Subject |
Drama -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Drama -- Collections.
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Comedy.
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