Comedy : an introduction to the theory of comedy in literature, drama, and cinema
A wide range of novels, plays and films are discussed in this introduction to comic criticism. The author looks at recurring patterns of comedy, both in the classics and in more popular or commercial works. He covers work from writers as diverse as Plautus, Dickens, Waugh, Stoppard and Woody Allen.
Print Book, English, 1990
Oxford University Press, Oxford [England], 1990
197 pages ; 23 cm
9780192192417, 9780192892201, 0192192418, 0192892207
64017232
Laughter; comedy and related forms; marriage; procreation; death; rogue and trickster; dupers and duped; the fool; the language of comedy; reality and fantasy; reflexive comedy; absurd and existential comedy; festivity; laughter or harmony?
"An OPUS book."