num_pages: 209
description: The author examines comedies based on a structure first used by Menander in the fourth century B.C. and brought to its precise formulations and brilliance by Marivaux in the eighteenth century A.D.
language: English
title: Menander to Marivaux: The History of a Comic Structure
titlecomplete: Menander to Marivaux: The History of a Comic Structure (Library of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature)
publisher: University of Alberta Press