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The death of comedy /
In a grand tour of comic theater over the centuries, Erich Segal traces the evolution of the classical form from its early origins in a misogynistic quip by the sixth-century B.C. Susarion, through countless weddings and happy endings, to the exasperated monosyllables of Samuel Beckett. With fitting...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2001]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Etymologies: getting to the root of it
- The song of the Kōmos
- The lyre and the phallus
- Aristophanes: the one and only?
- Failure and success
- The Birds: the uncensored fantasy
- Requiem for a genre?
- The comic catastrophe
- O Menander! O life!
- Plautus makes an entrance
- A Plautine problem play
- Terence: the African connection
- The mother-in-law of modern comedy
- Machiavelli: the comedy of evil
- Marlowe: Schade and Freude
- Shakespeare: errors and Erōs
- Twelfth night: dark clouds over Illyria
- Molière: the class of '68
- The fox, the fops, and the factotum
- Comedy explodes
- Beckett: the death of comedy.