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... comedy have not survived . Perhaps that is significant , specifically of the common tendency to question the literary credentials of anything that makes people laugh . A work of the first century BC , the Tractatus Coislinianus ...
... comedy have not survived . Perhaps that is significant , specifically of the common tendency to question the literary credentials of anything that makes people laugh . A work of the first century BC , the Tractatus Coislinianus ...
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... comedy ; drama or fiction , that is to say , whose dominant intention and effect is to entertain . Against such works the distinct censoriousnesses of moralists and aesthetes combine . Serious comedy , it is implied , comedy ...
... comedy ; drama or fiction , that is to say , whose dominant intention and effect is to entertain . Against such works the distinct censoriousnesses of moralists and aesthetes combine . Serious comedy , it is implied , comedy ...
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... comedy . The greatest comic achievements of literature have all been in the impure forms . In claiming Wodehouse for literature I am not trying to rate him as equal to Aristophanes , Shakespeare , Tchekhov and Shaw , let alone to rank ...
... comedy . The greatest comic achievements of literature have all been in the impure forms . In claiming Wodehouse for literature I am not trying to rate him as equal to Aristophanes , Shakespeare , Tchekhov and Shaw , let alone to rank ...
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by Sir Richard Faber KCVO CMG FRSL | 1 |
FRENCH WRITERS | 14 |
Willard Connely Memorial Lecture | 41 |
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