Playboys and Killjoys: An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Comedy

by Harry Levin

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Harry Levin--one of America's major literary critics--offers a brilliant and original study of the whole world of comedy, concentrating on playwrights through the centuries, from Aristophanes and Plautus in classical times to Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht and their recent successors.
Viewing the comic repertory as a richly varied yet broadly unified whole, Levin provides a synthesis of theories and practice. Isolating two fundamental aspects...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195048776

ISBN13:9780195048773

Release Date:September 1988

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"

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Arts, Music & Photography Criticism & Theory Drama History History & Criticism Humanities Humor Humor & Entertainment Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Movements & Periods Performing Arts Religious History Religious Studies

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