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016923
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Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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xii, 243pYellow ochre spine
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Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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From Aristotle to the commedia dell'arte, from Wilde to Albee, this Introduction uses these and many other examples from the vast history and range of the comedy genre to investigate comedy's patterns, characteristics, and mechanisms. Focusing on dramatic texts, the book also refers to literature, film, and television throughout, exploring how comedy affects and inhabits other worlds and genres.
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Introduction: Thinking about comedy
First things
Play
What is comedy?
Something to make us laugh?
Happy endings
The world brought down to earth
Summing up before moving on
1. Reading comedy
2. Comedy's foundations
3. Comedy's devices
4. Comedy in the flesh
5. Comedy's range
6. Comedy and society
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9780521540261 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| I00994 | 808.8017/WEI | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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016920
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Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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viii, 243pGreen Spine
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Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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Tragedy is the art form created to confront the most difficult experiences we face: death, loss, injustice, thwarted passion, despair. From ancient Greek theatre up to the most recent plays, playwrights have found, in tragic drama, a means to seek explanation for disaster. But tragedy is also a word we continually encounter in the media, to denote an event which is simply devastating in its emotional power. This introduction explores the relationship between tragic experience and tragic representation. After giving an overview of the tragic theatre canon - including chapters on the Greeks, Shakespeare, Ibsen and Chekhov, American tragedy and post-colonial drama - it also looks at the contribution which philosophers have brought to this subject, before ranging across other art forms and areas of debate.
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Approaching the subject
Tragic drama
Tragic theory
Non-dramatic tragedy
Coda : tragic sites
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9780521671491 Pb.
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| I00993 | 809.9162/WAL | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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