01392nam 2200373Ka 450 991069829520332120060313162745.0(CKB)25435870500041(OCoLC)64638245(EXLCZ)992543587050004120060313d2005 ua 0engtxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierProvincial reconstruction teams and military relations with international and nongovernmental organizations in Afghanistan[electronic resource] /Michael J. DziedzicWashington, DC :U.S. Institute of Peace,[2005]1 volume digital, PDF fileSpecial report ;147Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 13, 2006)."September 2005."Postwar reconstructionAfghanistanNon-governmental organizationsAfghanistanPostwar reconstructionNon-governmental organizationsDziedzic Michael J1382209Seidl Michael K1382210United States Institute of Peace.GPOGPOBOOK9910698295203321Provincial reconstruction teams and military relations with international and nongovernmental organizations in Afghanistan3425425UNINA04413nam 2200697 a 450 991095323550332120240416152741.09780674043411067404341310.4159/9780674043411(CKB)2560000000015274(StDuBDS)AH23050886(SSID)ssj0000483769(PQKBManifestationID)12214048(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483769(PQKBWorkID)10574187(PQKB)10254233(SSID)ssj0000415505(PQKBManifestationID)12130714(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415505(PQKBWorkID)10430949(PQKB)10650960(MiAaPQ)EBC3300792(Au-PeEL)EBL3300792(CaPaEBR)ebr10400467(OCoLC)923116900(DE-B1597)590381(DE-B1597)9780674043411(OCoLC)1294424739(Perlego)1148502(EXLCZ)99256000000001527420010323d2001 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe death of comedy /Erich Segal1st ed.Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20011 online resource (608 p. )illBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780674006430 0674006437 9780674012479 067401247X Includes bibliographical references ([459]-576) and index.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. Moliere: The Class of '68 19. The Fox, the Fops, and the Factotum 20. Comedy Explodes 21. Beckett: The Death of Comedy Coda Notes IndexIn a grand tour of comic theatre over the centuries, Erich Segal traces the evolution of the classical form from its early origins in a misogynistic quip by the 6th-century BC Susarion, through countless weddings and happy endings, to the exasperated monosyllables of Samuel Beckett.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. With fitting wit, profound erudition lightly worn, and instructive examples from the mildly amusing to the uproarious, his book fully illustrates comedy's glorious life cycle from its first breath to its death in the Theater of the Absurd. An exploration of various landmarks in the history of a genre that flourished almost unchanged for two millennia, The Death of Comedy revisits the obscenities and raucous twists of Aristophanes, the neighborly pleasantries of Menander, the tomfoolery and farce of Plautus. Segal shows how the ribaldry of foiled adultery, a staple of Roman comedy, reappears in force on the stages of Restoration England. And he gives us a closer look at the schadenfreude --delight in someone else's misfortune--that marks Machiavelli's and Marlowe's works. At every turn in Segal's analysis--from Shakespeare to Moliere to Shaw--another facet of the comic art emerges, until finally, he argues, "the head conquers and the heart dies": Letting the intellect take the lead, Cocteau, Ionesco, and Beckett smother comedy as we know it. The book is a tour de force , a sweeping panorama of the art and history of comedy, as insightful as it is delightful to read.ComedyHistory and criticismComedyHistory and criticism.809.2/523Segal Erich1937-2010.161813MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910953235503321Death of comedy280988UNINA