The Death of ComedyHarvard University Press, 30 jun 2009 - 607 pagina's In 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. |
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Pagina 4
... festivals characterized by such " stepping out of bounds . " There was orgiastic indulgence beyond the city limits not only during Akītu , the Babylonian New Year , but also following the expiatory solemnity of the Jewish Yom Kippur.26 ...
... festivals characterized by such " stepping out of bounds . " There was orgiastic indulgence beyond the city limits not only during Akītu , the Babylonian New Year , but also following the expiatory solemnity of the Jewish Yom Kippur.26 ...
Pagina 5
... festivals . The primal horror of the onlooker at the original sacrifice confirms mankind's innate and basic respect for life . The essence of drama was thus to be found in psychology and biol- ogy rather than the natural world : " the ...
... festivals . The primal horror of the onlooker at the original sacrifice confirms mankind's innate and basic respect for life . The essence of drama was thus to be found in psychology and biol- ogy rather than the natural world : " the ...
Pagina 6
... festival had not only re- ligious importance , but a social and political dimension as well which had been neglected by earlier scholars : The city and its citizens were the festivals ' theme and focus . Comic festivals were not ...
... festival had not only re- ligious importance , but a social and political dimension as well which had been neglected by earlier scholars : The city and its citizens were the festivals ' theme and focus . Comic festivals were not ...
Pagina 7
... festival ; he chronicles the fun . As Horace describes it , " after the rites have been performed , the spectator feels both drunk and beyond the law " ( potus et exlex ) .43 The entire description bespeaks an atmo- sphere of surrender ...
... festival ; he chronicles the fun . As Horace describes it , " after the rites have been performed , the spectator feels both drunk and beyond the law " ( potus et exlex ) .43 The entire description bespeaks an atmo- sphere of surrender ...
Pagina 8
... festival . Indeed , each hamlet seems to have made its own contributions to the larger Greek festivals , sponsoring choruses , dra- matic skits , and so on.54 A striking parallel is still to be found in the Ital- ian Palio at Siena ...
... festival . Indeed , each hamlet seems to have made its own contributions to the larger Greek festivals , sponsoring choruses , dra- matic skits , and so on.54 A striking parallel is still to be found in the Ital- ian Palio at Siena ...
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Failure and Success | 68 |
The Birds The Uncensored Fantasy | 85 |
Requiem for a Genre? | 101 |
The Comic Catastrophe | 124 |
Machiavelli The Comedy of Evil | 255 |
Marlowe Schade and Freude | 273 |
Shakespeare Errors and Erōs | 286 |
Twelfth Night Dark Clouds over Illyria | 305 |
Molière The Class of 68 | 329 |
The Fox the Fops and the Factotum | 363 |
Comedy Explodes | 403 |
Beckett The Death of Comedy | 431 |
O Menander O Life | 153 |
Plautus Makes an Entrance | 183 |
A Plautine Problem Play | 205 |
Terence The African Connection | 220 |
The MotherinLaw of Modern Comedy | 239 |
Coda | 453 |
Notes | 459 |
Index | 575 |
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Acharnians Alcmena Amphitruo Amphitryon ancient Antipholus Aristophanes Aristotle Athenian Athens audience Aulus Gellius Barabas Beckett begins Birds brother Casina century character chorus classical Clouds Comedy of Errors comic Country Wife Cratinus Creusa critic death Dicaeopolis Dionysus dramatic dream ESTRAGON Eupolis Euripides example fact father festival frag fragments Freud Frogs gamos genre girl Godot Greek Harpagon Hecyra Helen hero Horace Horner husband Ibid Iphigenia jokes Jonson Jupiter King kōmos Lamachus later Latin laughter London lover Malvolio marriage marry master Menaechmus Menander Menander's Menandrian Menelaus Molière Molière's Moschion mother myth Old Comedy Olivia Orestes Oxford Pamphilus Peisetaerus phallic phallus Pherecrates Philocleon Pinchwife Plautine Plautus play playwright plot poets prologue rejuvenation Roman scene scholars sexual Shakespeare slave stage Strepsiades tells Terence Terence's theater theme tion traditional tragedy Trygaeus Twelfth Night twin Viola VLADIMIR Volpone wedding wife woman women words Xuthus young Zeus
Populaire passages
Pagina 3 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen ; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Pagina 563 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart crow beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart, wrapt in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Pagina 367 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Pagina 264 - If thou be'st born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee, Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair. If thou find'st one, let me know, Such a pilgrimage were sweet...
Pagina 449 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.