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 LEADER 02747nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910970891403321 005 20230124183854.0 010 $a0-86597-808-5 010 $a1-4619-3145-2 010 $a1-61487-896-X 035 $a(CKB)2550000001079629 035 $a(OCoLC)849937026 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29234 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3327352 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10723932 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL499258 035 $a(OCoLC)923212189 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3327352 035 $a(BIP)30205110 035 $a(BIP)30959869 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001079629 100 $a20110103d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe excellencie of a free-state, or, the right constitution of a commonwealth /$fMarchamont Nedham ; edited and with an introduction by Blair Worden 210 $aIndianapolis, Ind. $cLiberty Fund$dc2011 215 $acviii, 211 p 225 0$aThomas Hollis library 311 08$a0-86597-809-3 311 08$a1-299-68008-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThis edition brings back into print, after two and a half centuries, the pioneering work of English republicanism, Marchamont Nedham's The Excellencie of a Free-State , which was written in the wake of the execution of King Charles I. First published in 1656, and compiled from previously written editorials in the parliamentarian newsbook Mercurius Politicus , The Excellencie of a Free-State addressed a dilemma in English politics, namely, what kind of government should the Commonwealth adopt? David Womersley is Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. His most recent book is Divinity and State . Marchamont Nedham (1620-1678) was a polemicist, pamphleteer, and editor of Mercurius Politicus . Blair Worden is Emeritus Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. 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