The Death of ComedyHarvard University Press, 30.06.2009 - 607 Seiten 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 wit, profound erudition lightly worn, and instructive examples from the mildly amusing to the uproarious, his book fully illustrates comedy's glorious life cycle from its first breath to its death in the Theater of the Absurd. |
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The Lyre and the Phallus | 27 |
Aristophanes The One and Only? | 44 |
Failure and Success | 68 |
The Birds The Uncensored Fantasy | 85 |
Requiem for a Genre? | 101 |
The Comic Catastrophe | 124 |
Machiavelli The Comedy of Evil | 255 |
Marlowe Schade and Freude | 273 |
Shakespeare Errors and Erōs | 286 |
Twelfth Night Dark Clouds over Illyria | 305 |
Molière The Class of 68 | 329 |
The Fox the Fops and the Factotum | 363 |
Comedy Explodes | 403 |
Beckett The Death of Comedy | 431 |
O Menander O Life | 153 |
Plautus Makes an Entrance | 183 |
A Plautine Problem Play | 205 |
Terence The African Connection | 220 |
The MotherinLaw of Modern Comedy | 239 |
Coda | 453 |
Notes | 459 |
Index | 575 |
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Acharnians Alcmena Amphitruo Amphitryon ancient Antipholus Aristophanes Aristotle Athenian Athens audience Aulus Gellius Barabas Beckett begins Birds brother Casina century character chorus classical Clouds Comedy of Errors comic Country Wife Cratinus Creusa critic death Dicaeopolis Dionysus dramatic dream ESTRAGON Eupolis Euripides example fact father festival frag fragments Freud Frogs gamos genre girl Godot Greek Harpagon Hecyra Helen hero Horace Horner husband Ibid Iphigenia jokes Jonson Jupiter King kōmos Lamachus later Latin laughter London lover Malvolio marriage marry master Menaechmus Menander Menander's Menandrian Menelaus Molière Molière's Moschion mother myth Old Comedy Olivia Orestes Oxford Pamphilus Peisetaerus phallic phallus Pherecrates Philocleon Pinchwife Plautine Plautus play playwright plot poets prologue rejuvenation Roman scene scholars sexual Shakespeare slave stage Strepsiades tells Terence Terence's theater theme tion traditional tragedy Trygaeus Twelfth Night twin Viola VLADIMIR Volpone wedding wife woman women words Xuthus young Zeus
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Seite 3 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen ; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.