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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... women could be permanent or even frequent . Indeed the fact that this play could be presented in a society in which women were so clearly subordinate to men was doubtless due to a conviction among male Athenians that no programme ...
... women could be permanent or even frequent . Indeed the fact that this play could be presented in a society in which women were so clearly subordinate to men was doubtless due to a conviction among male Athenians that no programme ...
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... women laugh at or patronize men . While we can find instances of this from quite early times , there has until ... women when she complains : ' Women get called rude names more than men , because it is not expected that they will hit the ...
... women laugh at or patronize men . While we can find instances of this from quite early times , there has until ... women when she complains : ' Women get called rude names more than men , because it is not expected that they will hit the ...
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... women are supposed to idolize and the second to the type who think women need to be mastered . Both are soon cast off : the two leading characters show no sign of needing a replacement for either . At the end one of the women achieves ...
... women are supposed to idolize and the second to the type who think women need to be mastered . Both are soon cast off : the two leading characters show no sign of needing a replacement for either . At the end one of the women achieves ...
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Marriage | 41 |
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