The Death of Comedy.
Segal, Erich.
The Death of Comedy. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (604 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Etymologies: Getting to the Root of It -- 2. The Song of the Komos -- 3. The Lyre and the Phallus -- 4. Aristophanes: The One and Only? -- 5. Failure and Success -- 6. The Birds: The Uncensored Fantasy -- 7. Requiem for a Genre? -- 8. The Comic Catastrophe -- 9. O Menander! O Life! -- 10. Plautus Makes an Entrance -- 11. A Plautine Problem Play -- 12. Terence: The African Connection -- 13. The Mother-in-Law of Modern Comedy -- 14. Machiavelli: The Comedy of Evil -- 15. Marlowe: Schade and Freude -- 16. Shakespeare: Errors and Eros -- 17. Twelfth Night: Dark Clouds over Illyria -- 18. Molière: The Class of '68 -- 19. The Fox, the Fops, and the Factotum -- 20. Comedy Explodes -- 21. Beckett: The Death of Comedy -- Coda -- Notes -- Index.
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.
9780674043411
Comedy-History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PN1922
809.2/523
The Death of Comedy. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (604 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Etymologies: Getting to the Root of It -- 2. The Song of the Komos -- 3. The Lyre and the Phallus -- 4. Aristophanes: The One and Only? -- 5. Failure and Success -- 6. The Birds: The Uncensored Fantasy -- 7. Requiem for a Genre? -- 8. The Comic Catastrophe -- 9. O Menander! O Life! -- 10. Plautus Makes an Entrance -- 11. A Plautine Problem Play -- 12. Terence: The African Connection -- 13. The Mother-in-Law of Modern Comedy -- 14. Machiavelli: The Comedy of Evil -- 15. Marlowe: Schade and Freude -- 16. Shakespeare: Errors and Eros -- 17. Twelfth Night: Dark Clouds over Illyria -- 18. Molière: The Class of '68 -- 19. The Fox, the Fops, and the Factotum -- 20. Comedy Explodes -- 21. Beckett: The Death of Comedy -- Coda -- Notes -- Index.
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.
9780674043411
Comedy-History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PN1922
809.2/523