Playboys and Killjoys: An Essay on the Theory and Practice of ComedyOxford University Press, 08/09/1988 - 214 من الصفحات 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 of comedy--the ludicrous and irreverent "playboy," whom we laugh with, and the ridiculous and forbidding "killjoy," whom we laugh at--he traces the dialectical interplay of these components throughout history and across various cultures and media. While mainly focusing on the plays and the stage, with discussions of such major dramatists as Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Molière, and William Congreve, Levin also includes essays on such related topics as humor, satire, and games. |
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الصفحة viii
... Humor , edited by Harry Levin , Harvard English Studies , III ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1972 ) ; and " The Wages of Satire , " from Literature and Society , edited by Edward W. Said , Selected Papers from the English ...
... Humor , edited by Harry Levin , Harvard English Studies , III ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1972 ) ; and " The Wages of Satire , " from Literature and Society , edited by Edward W. Said , Selected Papers from the English ...
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... SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAYS A. From Play to Plays 135 B. Notes on City Comedy 155 C. Veins of Humor 175 D. The Wages of Satire 192 Index 207 This page intentionally left blank PLAYBOYS AND KILLJOYS This page CONTENTS Contents.
... SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAYS A. From Play to Plays 135 B. Notes on City Comedy 155 C. Veins of Humor 175 D. The Wages of Satire 192 Index 207 This page intentionally left blank PLAYBOYS AND KILLJOYS This page CONTENTS Contents.
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... humor and with satire ) . But comedy as such is so fruitful a field , so readily accessible and so concretely definable , that it claims centripetal attention . Critics today are much concerned , and justifiably so , with theories . We ...
... humor and with satire ) . But comedy as such is so fruitful a field , so readily accessible and so concretely definable , that it claims centripetal attention . Critics today are much concerned , and justifiably so , with theories . We ...
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... humor . In vivisecting laughs and anesthetizing laughers , gelastics proves to be a dismal science . The ... humor . Etymology is significant here . Wit , from an Anglo- Saxon keyword , is linked with the cogitations of the mind ; humor ...
... humor . In vivisecting laughs and anesthetizing laughers , gelastics proves to be a dismal science . The ... humor . Etymology is significant here . Wit , from an Anglo- Saxon keyword , is linked with the cogitations of the mind ; humor ...
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... humorous man " was a crank ; gradually the humorist came to be seen as a person with an eye for such crotchets . Now ridicule , the noun or verb in its etymological fullness , means laughing at ( not with ) somebody or something . I ...
... humorous man " was a crank ; gradually the humorist came to be seen as a person with an eye for such crotchets . Now ridicule , the noun or verb in its etymological fullness , means laughing at ( not with ) somebody or something . I ...
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الصفحة 97 - To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival, into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture, and part in agony ; to fill their mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous sorrow...
الصفحة 187 - Sensus Communis: An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour.
الصفحة 199 - SATIRE is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own ; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
الصفحة 135 - For, to mince matters no longer, man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays.
الصفحة 183 - It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition : As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his effects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
الصفحة 142 - But the chiefest jewel they bring from thence is their May-pole, which they bring home with great veneration. as thus, They have twenty or forty yoke of oxen.
الصفحة 199 - Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
الصفحة 15 - But these are all lies : men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
الصفحة 172 - ... of a niggardly Demea, of a crafty Davus, of a flattering Gnatho, of a vainglorious Thraso ; and not only to know what effects are to be expected, but to know who be such, by the signifying badge given them by the comedian.