Playboys and killjoys : an essay on the theory and practice of comedy /

Harry Levin--one of America's leading literary critics--offers a study of the whole world of comedy, concentrating on playwrights through the centuries, from Aristophanes and Plautus in classical times to Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht and their recent successors.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Levin, Harry, 1912-1994
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1988, ©1987.
Temas:
Comedy.
Comédie.
comedy plays.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Comedy
Drama in European languages > Comedies, to 1986 - Critical studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Playboys and killjoys
  • Points of departure
  • 1. Coming to terms
  • 2. Rules of the game
  • 3. The argument
  • 4. Bonds of interest
  • 5. Reductions to folly
  • 6. The truth of masks
  • 7. Duplicities
  • 8. Zanyism
  • 9. Domesticities
  • 10. Designs for living
  • 11. Mixed emotions
  • 12. Metacomedy
  • Supplementary essays
  • A. From play to plays
  • B. Notes on city comedy
  • C. Veins of humor
  • D. The wages of satire.

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