English Comedy
Author: Ashley H. Thorndike
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1932
Total Pages: 648
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Author: Ashley H. Thorndike
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1932
Total Pages: 648
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard F. Hardin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017-11-08
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1683931297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fifteenth-century discovery of Plautus’s lost comedies brought him, for the first time since antiquity, the status of a major author both on stage and page. It also led to a reinvention of comedy and to new thinking about its art and potential. This book aims to define the unique contribution of Plautus, detached from his fellow Roman dramatist Terence, and seen in the context of that European revival, first as it took shape on the Continent. The heart of the book, with special focus on English comedy ca. 1560 to 1640, analyzes elements of Plautine technique during the period, as differentiated from native and Terentian, considering such points of comparison as dialogue, asides, metadrama, observation scenes, characterization, and atmosphere. This is the first book to cover this ground, raising such questions as: How did comedy rather suddenly progress from the interludes and brief plays of the early sixteenth century to longer, more complex plays? What did “Plautus” mean to playwrights and readers of the time? Plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, and Middleton are foregrounded, but many other comedies provide illustration and support.
Author: Allan Rodway
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2021-05-28
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0520365062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.
Author: Adam Zucker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-10
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1107003083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of wit, witlessness and social and comic conventions in the plays of Shakespeare, Jonson and their contemporaries.
Author: Charles Mills Gayley
Publisher:
Published: 1903
Total Pages: 784
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: I.Q. Hunter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-04
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1136508376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritish comedy cinema has been a mainstay of domestic production since the beginning of the last Century and arguably the most popular and important genre in British film history. This edited volume will offer the first comprehensive account of the rich and popular history of British comedy cinema from silent slapstick and satire to contemporary romantic comedy. Using a loosely chronological approach, essays cover successive decades of the 20th and 21st Century with a combination of case studies on key personalities, production cycles and studio output along with fresh approaches to issues of class and gender representation. It will present new research on familiar comedy cycles such as the Ealing Comedies and Carry On films as well as the largely undocumented silent period along with the rise of television spin offs from the 1970s and the development of animated comedy from 1915 to the present. Films covered include: St Trinians, A Fish Called Wanda, Brassed Off, Local Hero, The Full Monty, Four Lions and In the Loop. Contributors: Melanie Bell, Alan Burton, James Chapman, Richard Dacre, Ian Hunter, James Leggott, Sharon Lockyer, Andy Medhurst, Lawrence Napper, Tim O’Sullivan, Laraine Porter, Justin Smith, Sarah Street, Peter Waymark, Paul Wells
Author: Kathleen M. Lynch
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780819601643
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kristine Brunovska Karnick
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 1135213232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKApplies the recent `return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this field.
Author: English comedy
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Published: 1810
Total Pages: 282
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Douglas Adams
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-10-07
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1476782997
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Now a BBC America TV series event"--Cover.