English Comedy - Brossura

Cordner, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521032903 ISBN 13: 9780521032902

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Riassunto

Why does comedy matter? Is it celebratory or subversive? What makes it flourish, and which creative forces resist it? English Comedy addresses these and related questions by invoking a variety of works from Aristophanes to Walt Disney, while focusing on the traditions of comic writing in England. Poetry, the novel and (above all) drama are examined to assess the constrictions and liberations of genre, the negotiations or divergences between comic practice and theory, and the dynamics of theatrical language. Ranging from medieval and Renaissance drama through Romantic poetry to twentieth-century literature and philosophy, English Comedy makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the heritage of comic writing.

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English Comedy brings together well-established scholars and younger critics to examine the traditions of comic writing in England, ranging from medieval and Renaissance drama through Romantic poetry to twentieth-century literature and philosophy, makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the heritage of comic writing.

Contenuti:

List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction Michael Cordner, Peter Holland and John Kerrigan; 2. Crab's pedigree Richard Beadle; 3. The comedian as the character C Stephen Orgel; 4. Mixed verse and prose in Shakespearean comedy Jonas Barish; 5. Much Ado About Nothing: the unsociable comedy Barbara Everett; 6. Laughter, forgetting and Shakespeare Adrian Poole; 7. Enigmatic Ben Jonson John Creaser; 8. A New Way to Pay Old Debts: Massinger's grim comedy Martin Butler; 9. 'Thou teachest me humanitie': Thomas Heywood's The English Traveller Richard Rowland; 10. Etherege's She Would If She Could: comedy, complaisance and anti-climax Michael Cordner; 11. Rhyming as comedy: body, ghost and banquet Gillian Beer; 12. Wordsworthian comedy Jonathan Wordsworth; 13. Apeing romanticism Jonathan Bate; 14. A complete history of comic noses John Kerrigan; 15. Noël Coward and comic geometry Peter Holland; 16. Ludwig Wittgenstein and the comedy of errors Eric Griffiths; Index.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521032903
• ISBN 13: 9780521032902
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 340