English Comedy: Its Role and Nature from Chaucer to the Present DayUniv of California Press, 28.05.2021 - 290 Seiten This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975. |
Inhalt
Acknowledgements page | viii |
Origin and Nature of Comedy | 17 |
Critical Terminology | 28 |
Comedy and English Society | 48 |
PART II | 57 |
Renaissance c 15601640 | 80 |
Augustan c 16601760 | 114 |
Regency c 18001830 | 174 |
BraveNewWorld c 18701970 | 209 |
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