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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... father . The reversal is neatly illustrated in a seventeenth - century play by Sir William Davenant , The Platonic Lovers . Here a son lectures his father on the duties of parents to children . His father , he loftily insists , must ...
... father . The reversal is neatly illustrated in a seventeenth - century play by Sir William Davenant , The Platonic Lovers . Here a son lectures his father on the duties of parents to children . His father , he loftily insists , must ...
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... father credit for having a good old time ' at their expense . But this simply adds force to his admissions in other places that his own freedom and , at times , his life were placed at risk by his father . Equally useful to Twain in his ...
... father credit for having a good old time ' at their expense . But this simply adds force to his admissions in other places that his own freedom and , at times , his life were placed at risk by his father . Equally useful to Twain in his ...
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... father's domination through a rash blow with a shovel , his adoption as a romantic hero by a group of villagers who believe he has destroyed his da ' , and his final determination to live the roistering legend which his hosts have ...
... father's domination through a rash blow with a shovel , his adoption as a romantic hero by a group of villagers who believe he has destroyed his da ' , and his final determination to live the roistering legend which his hosts have ...
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Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
Procreation | 58 |
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