English Comedy: Its Role and Nature from Chaucer to the Present DayChatto & Windus, 1975 - 288 Seiten |
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... Play - Wit , as we may call it , and Tendency - Wit seems both valid and necessary . Play - Wit is probably a form of regression to the freedom of child- hood , an escape from the repressions required to maintain adult dignity , reason ...
... Play - Wit , as we may call it , and Tendency - Wit seems both valid and necessary . Play - Wit is probably a form of regression to the freedom of child- hood , an escape from the repressions required to maintain adult dignity , reason ...
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... play according to right reason are clearly less absurd than those who play conventionally or foolishly . That traditional morality might well reverse this value - judgement is what makes this play radical and experimental as a social ...
... play according to right reason are clearly less absurd than those who play conventionally or foolishly . That traditional morality might well reverse this value - judgement is what makes this play radical and experimental as a social ...
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... play avoids any suspicion of dullness by a skilful deployment of all the arts of the Victorian well - made play that Shaw affected to despise : patches of farce , sensation , theatrically - effective entrances and exits and a careful ...
... play avoids any suspicion of dullness by a skilful deployment of all the arts of the Victorian well - made play that Shaw affected to despise : patches of farce , sensation , theatrically - effective entrances and exits and a careful ...
Inhalt
Acknowledgements page | 9 |
Origin and Nature of Comedy | 17 |
Critical Terminology | 28 |
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