Eight great comedies
By: edited by Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman [and] William Burto.
Series: A Mentor book, MD216
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 1958
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
Subjects: Drama -- Collections.; Comedy.
Genres: Collections.
Description: A collection of eight of the comic masterpieces of drama, with authors ranging from Aristophanes to Shaw; also included are several critical essays.
Notes: 99419
Table of contents: title: The comic view: an introduction.; title: The comedies: The clouds, by Aristophanes. Mandragola, by N. Machiavelli. Twelfth night, by W. Shakespeare. The miser, by Molière. The beggar's opera, by J. Gay. The importance of being Earnest, by O. Wilde. Uncle Vanya, by A. Chekhov. Arms and the man, by G. B. Shaw.; title: The essays: On the comic spirit, by G. K. Chesterton. Comedy, by B. Dobrée. The comic rhythm, by S. K. Langer. The structure of comedy, by N. Frye.; title: Bibliography (p. [470]-[472])