English Comedy: Its Role and Nature from Chaucer to the Present DayChatto & Windus, 1975 - 288 Seiten |
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... later comedy of the period , therefore , is paradoxically more conserving though less aristocratic — a fact made plain enough if Rochester's Satire Against Mankind is com- pared with Pope's Essay on Man , or any aristocratic Restoration ...
... later comedy of the period , therefore , is paradoxically more conserving though less aristocratic — a fact made plain enough if Rochester's Satire Against Mankind is com- pared with Pope's Essay on Man , or any aristocratic Restoration ...
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... later period . Both earlier and later , much that is called ' comic ' verse would be better styled ' light verse ' ( ' divertisement ' by our definitions ) . The little that would properly count as comedy in the earlier period is , of ...
... later period . Both earlier and later , much that is called ' comic ' verse would be better styled ' light verse ' ( ' divertisement ' by our definitions ) . The little that would properly count as comedy in the earlier period is , of ...
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... later writers of comedy , that human absurdities are not curable by any change of society , but only by an unlikely change of human nature . All the characters have what is lacking elsewhere , a shadow side ; they are more than mouth ...
... later writers of comedy , that human absurdities are not curable by any change of society , but only by an unlikely change of human nature . All the characters have what is lacking elsewhere , a shadow side ; they are more than mouth ...
Inhalt
Acknowledgements page | 9 |
Origin and Nature of Comedy | 17 |
Critical Terminology | 28 |
Urheberrecht | |
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