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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... figure in the poem is Leila , the little Turkish girl whom Juan saves at the siege of Ismail . Leila is not a figure of comedy but a Romantic innocent in the corrupt adult world . Her best moment comes when she admires Canterbury ...
... figure in the poem is Leila , the little Turkish girl whom Juan saves at the siege of Ismail . Leila is not a figure of comedy but a Romantic innocent in the corrupt adult world . Her best moment comes when she admires Canterbury ...
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... figure , however much he may like to think of himself as one . None of the three is rich , none stands well with the Church hierarchy . Each has a sense of humour , yet each unwittingly becomes an object of ridicule . In Tristram Shandy ...
... figure , however much he may like to think of himself as one . None of the three is rich , none stands well with the Church hierarchy . Each has a sense of humour , yet each unwittingly becomes an object of ridicule . In Tristram Shandy ...
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... figures are marginal to the classic comedyintrigue of two young people who overcome obstacles to their marriage ; but this ... figure of the rogue , whose illusions and trickery are goal - orientated and whose attitude to his victims is ...
... figures are marginal to the classic comedyintrigue of two young people who overcome obstacles to their marriage ; but this ... figure of the rogue , whose illusions and trickery are goal - orientated and whose attitude to his victims is ...
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Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
Procreation | 58 |
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