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| 809.912082 CAM The Cambridge companion to modernist women writers / | 809.914 POP Morphology of the folktale | 809.915 FER A dictionary of literary symbols | 809.917 SEG The death of comedy | 809.924 BOO The seven basic plots : why we tell stories | 809.924 BOO The seven basic plots : why we tell stories | 809.926 MCK Dialogue : the art of verbal action for page, stage and screen |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. The death of comedy revisits the obscenities and raucous twists of Aristophanes, the neighborly pleasantries of Menander, the tomfoolery and farce of Plautus. Segal shows how the ribaldry of foiled adultery, a staple of Roman comedy, reappears in force on the stages of Restoration England.
2018
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