Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United KingdomOxford University Press, 1966 |
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... comedy , which like all comedy shows a world that is friendly to man if he will only learn how to live in it , is similarly exclusive . Its characters are relieved of the ordinary anxieties of life in order that they may give their ...
... comedy , which like all comedy shows a world that is friendly to man if he will only learn how to live in it , is similarly exclusive . Its characters are relieved of the ordinary anxieties of life in order that they may give their ...
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... Comedy reflects the morality of its age . Restoration Comedy is the product of a society in which the current serious philo- sophy did not rank sexual satisfaction very high in the scale of human values , and in which marriage was , in ...
... Comedy reflects the morality of its age . Restoration Comedy is the product of a society in which the current serious philo- sophy did not rank sexual satisfaction very high in the scale of human values , and in which marriage was , in ...
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... comedy of manners is always the relation between the sexes , since it is here that social conventions are most at war with human nature and manners are most required yet seem most remote from real feeling . A comedy of manners is always ...
... comedy of manners is always the relation between the sexes , since it is here that social conventions are most at war with human nature and manners are most required yet seem most remote from real feeling . A comedy of manners is always ...
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Katja Reissner Lecture 1960 | 19 |
THE PLAYS OF JOHN WHITING | 36 |
THE COMEDIES OF T S ELIOT | 55 |
Urheberrecht | |
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