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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... King Lear , where the action begins in the courts of princes , moves to the barren heath ( a world of nature ) , and then moves back , in the last two acts , to the stratified social world . In Aristotle's Poetics , two elements ...
... King Lear , where the action begins in the courts of princes , moves to the barren heath ( a world of nature ) , and then moves back , in the last two acts , to the stratified social world . In Aristotle's Poetics , two elements ...
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... King Lear regularly traps the King into confessing , and thus perceiving , his own folly . Touchstone in As You Like It makes ' very swift and sententious ' repartees : other characters see that ' He uses his folly like a stalking ...
... King Lear regularly traps the King into confessing , and thus perceiving , his own folly . Touchstone in As You Like It makes ' very swift and sententious ' repartees : other characters see that ' He uses his folly like a stalking ...
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... king's annoys him because it keeps the two of them from dinner . He is afraid of demons ( which the King has power to banish ) and seems at times to have little understanding of sacred things . When he hears that one of the king's wives ...
... king's annoys him because it keeps the two of them from dinner . He is afraid of demons ( which the King has power to banish ) and seems at times to have little understanding of sacred things . When he hears that one of the king's wives ...
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Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
Procreation | 58 |
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