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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Segal, Erich, 1937-2010 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2001]
Subjects:
Comedy > History and criticism.
Comédie > Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
Comedy.
Komedies.
Klassieke talen.
Receptie.
Literatuurkritiek.
Komödie.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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