LEADER 04413nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910953235503321 005 20240416152741.0 010 $a9780674043411 010 $a0674043413 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674043411 035 $a(CKB)2560000000015274 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050886 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483769 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12214048 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483769 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10574187 035 $a(PQKB)10254233 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000415505 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12130714 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415505 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10430949 035 $a(PQKB)10650960 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300792 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300792 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10400467 035 $a(OCoLC)923116900 035 $a(DE-B1597)590381 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674043411 035 $a(OCoLC)1294424739 035 $a(Perlego)1148502 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000015274 100 $a20010323d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe death of comedy /$fErich Segal 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (608 p. )$cill 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780674006430 311 08$a0674006437 311 08$a9780674012479 311 08$a067401247X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references ([459]-576) and index. 327 $aPreface 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 Index 330 $aIn 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. 330 $bIn 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. 606 $aComedy$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aComedy$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.2/523 700 $aSegal$b Erich$f1937-2010.$0161813 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953235503321 996 $aDeath of comedy$9280988 997 $aUNINA