Reader in Comedy
Subtitle: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: Dec 29, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781474247894
Description: This book presents a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of comic theory, highlighting the relationships between comedy, politics, economics, philosophy, religion, and other arts and genres.
Notes: Source title: Reader in Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism