Comedy: An Introduction to Comedy in Literature, Drama, and CinemaOxford University Press, 1990 - 197 páginas From Plautus, Cervantes, and Dickens to Evelyn Waugh, Joseph Heller, and Tom Stoppard, from A Midsummer Night's Dream to Arsenic and Old Lace and Woody Allen, this concise and readable book provides a thorough introduction to comic criticism. Nelson shows that there are significant recurring patterns of comedy both in the classics and in more popular and commercial works. He discusses such themes as the link between comedy and carnival, the apparent obsession of modern writers with linguistic comedy, and the dilemma of feminists faced with traditional comedy that is largely sexist in nature. |
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... look over the fence , he starts competitive games such as King of the Castle . One day the spectators encourage him to taunt another goat , his friend , who cannot displace him from his perch : ' I found myself making the peculiar ...
... look over the fence , he starts competitive games such as King of the Castle . One day the spectators encourage him to taunt another goat , his friend , who cannot displace him from his perch : ' I found myself making the peculiar ...
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... look after it until the son could confess his crime to his father and ask permission to marry the baby's mother . The child , then , is carefully fostered and protected by the other characters : moreover , its birth is what generates ...
... look after it until the son could confess his crime to his father and ask permission to marry the baby's mother . The child , then , is carefully fostered and protected by the other characters : moreover , its birth is what generates ...
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... look in on the criminal world from outside , seem to admire the rogues ' dexterity more than they deplore their ... looks too like a bid on the thief's part to draw the gentlemen into his ambience . It is probably true that , in tragedy ...
... look in on the criminal world from outside , seem to admire the rogues ' dexterity more than they deplore their ... looks too like a bid on the thief's part to draw the gentlemen into his ambience . It is probably true that , in tragedy ...
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Laughter | 1 |
Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
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