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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... comic drama which began just over a century and a half later . In England the comic drama of the Restoration period , which reached its peak in about 1676 , lent plots and type - figures to the eighteenth - century English novel , a ...
... comic drama which began just over a century and a half later . In England the comic drama of the Restoration period , which reached its peak in about 1676 , lent plots and type - figures to the eighteenth - century English novel , a ...
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... comic Midsummer Night's Dream and his tragic Romeo and Juliet were written at almost the same time . The comedy has a play - within - aplay in which the love of two young people is opposed by their families : after a series of accidents ...
... comic Midsummer Night's Dream and his tragic Romeo and Juliet were written at almost the same time . The comedy has a play - within - aplay in which the love of two young people is opposed by their families : after a series of accidents ...
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... comic symbolization of childhood , which shows children as a burden or a nuisance . Dickens , like other comic writers , senses the adult's nostalgia for what Brown calls the privileged irresponsibility and freedom of childhood . Being ...
... comic symbolization of childhood , which shows children as a burden or a nuisance . Dickens , like other comic writers , senses the adult's nostalgia for what Brown calls the privileged irresponsibility and freedom of childhood . Being ...
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Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
Procreation | 58 |
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