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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... satire . Satire has one obvious affinity with comedy : we think of it as intended to make us laugh . Yet at one end of its spectrum , satire approaches the condition of the denunciatory sermon : the call of the prophet Jeremiah to the ...
... satire . Satire has one obvious affinity with comedy : we think of it as intended to make us laugh . Yet at one end of its spectrum , satire approaches the condition of the denunciatory sermon : the call of the prophet Jeremiah to the ...
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... satire . This difficulty arises constantly . How ' seriously ' or playfully should we take a given joke ? A mayor's wife in New Zealand once told Noel Coward that he must never sing ' Mad Dogs and Englishmen ' again because it was an ...
... satire . This difficulty arises constantly . How ' seriously ' or playfully should we take a given joke ? A mayor's wife in New Zealand once told Noel Coward that he must never sing ' Mad Dogs and Englishmen ' again because it was an ...
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... satire . If these elements are absent , you are responding to it as comedy . The second point is related . We have seen that in their urbane forms satire and comedy come close to one another . But when the laughter becomes harsher , a ...
... satire . If these elements are absent , you are responding to it as comedy . The second point is related . We have seen that in their urbane forms satire and comedy come close to one another . But when the laughter becomes harsher , a ...
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Laughter | 1 |
Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
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