Comedy
Subtitle: plays, theory, and criticism
Series: Harbrace sourcebooks
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Drama; Comédie; Comedy; Collections; Theory; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Eight comedies.; title: The birds  -- Aristophanes; title: Twelfth night, or, What you will  -- William Shakespeare; title: The misanthrope  -- Molière; title: The critic, or, A tragedy rehearsed  -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan; title: A wedding, or, A joke in one act  -- Anton Chekhov; title: The man of destiny  -- George Bernard Shaw; title: The importance of being earnest  -- Oscar Wilde; title: A phoenix too frequent -- Christopher Fry.; title: Source and supplementary material.; title: The poet and his audience  -- Victor Ehrenberg; title: The Commedia dell'arte  -- Allardyce Nicoll; title: Twelfth night  -- Kenneth Muir; title: The satyricon -- Petronius.; title: Some theories of comedy.; title: Poetics : comedy  -- Aristotle; title: Some prefatory words on comedy  -- Louis Kronenberger; title: Concerning humour in comedy  -- William Congreve; title: Restoration comedy  -- Bonamy Dobrée; title: On comedy and the uses of the comic spirit  -- George Meredith; title: Laughter  -- Henri Bergson; title: Wit and its relation to the unconscious  -- Sigmund Freud; title: The argument of comedy  -- Northrop Frye; title: The great dramatic forms : the comic rhythm -- Susanne K. Langer.; title: Criticism.; title: from The origin of Attic comedy  -- Francis M. Cornford; title: from The people of Aristophanes  -- Victor Ehrenberg; title: The masks of Twelfth night  -- Joseph H. Summers; title: M. Rousseau to M. D'Alembert  -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau; title: Le misanthrope  -- Martin Turnell; title: Satiric strategy in The importance of being earnest -- Otto Reinert.