Comedy High and Low: An Introduction to the Experience of Comedy - Softcover

Charney, Maurice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820405388 ISBN 13: 9780820405384

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

In this broad-ranging exploration of the nature of comedy Professor Charney considers its popular roots as well as the major issues in comic theory. Comedy High and Low seeks to bridge the gap between comic literature, especially stage comedy, and the popular comedy of jokes, graffiti, and comic happenings of everyday life. With examples taken mainly from major figures of stage comedy from Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Jonson, the Restoration dramatists, and Molière to Beckett, Pinter, Dürrenmatt, Stoppard, and Orton, it brings a historical perspective to the subject, and also includes many allusions to the great film comedies of Keaton, Chaplin, Fields, and the Marx Brothers. An extensive critical bibliography supplements this provocative and highly readable book.

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The Author: Maurice Charney, Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University, is also the author of How to Read Shakespeare (1971), Style in ‘Hamlet’ (1969), and Shakespeare’s Roman Plays: The Function of Imagery in the Drama (1961). He has edited numerous plays by Shakespeare and is special editor of «Comedy: New Perspectives», the first issue of The New York Literary Forum.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0820405388
• ISBN 13: 9780820405384
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 204
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