The Death of ComedyHarvard University Press, 2001 - 589 עמודים 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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Getting to the Root of It | 1 |
2 The Song of the Komos | 10 |
3 The Lyre and the Phallus | 27 |
The One and Only? | 44 |
5 Failure and Success | 68 |
The Uncensored Fantasy | 85 |
7 Requiem for a Genre? | 101 |
8 The Comic Catastrophe | 124 |
The Comedy of Evil | 255 |
Schade and Freude | 273 |
Errors and Eros | 286 |
Dark Clouds over Illyria | 305 |
The Class of 68 | 329 |
19 The Fox the Fops and the Factotum | 363 |
20 Comedy Explodes | 403 |
The Death of Comedy | 431 |
9 O Menander O Life | 153 |
10 Plautus Makes an Entrance | 183 |
11 A Plautine Problem Play | 205 |
The African Connection | 220 |
13 The MotherinLaw of Modern Comedy | 239 |
Coda | 453 |
Notes | 459 |
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