The Death of Comedy /

The Death of Comedy / / Erich Segal.

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In a grand tour of comic theater over the centuries, Erich Segal traces the evolution of the classical form from its early origins in a misogynistic quip by the sixth-century B.C. Susarion, through countless weddings and happy endings, to the exasperated monosyllables of Samuel Beckett. With fitting...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Segal, Erich,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2001
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (607 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Etymologies: Getting to the Root of It
  • 2. The Song of the Komos
  • 3. The Lyre and the Phallus
  • 4. Aristophanes: The One and Only?
  • 5. Failure and Success
  • 6. The Birds: The Uncensored Fantasy
  • 7. Requiem for a Genre?
  • 8. The Comic Catastrophe
  • 9. O Menander! O Life!
  • 10. Plautus Makes an Entrance
  • 11. A Plautine Problem Play
  • 12. Terence: The African Connection
  • 13. The Mother-in-Law of Modern Comedy
  • 14. Machiavelli: The Comedy of Evil
  • 15. Marlowe: Schade and Freude
  • 16. Shakespeare: Errors and Eros
  • 17. Twelfth Night: Dark Clouds over Illyria
  • 18. Molière: The Class of ’68
  • 19. The Fox, the Fops, and the Factotum
  • 20. Comedy Explodes
  • 21. Beckett: The Death of Comedy
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Index

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