Comedy, meaning and form, edited with an introd. by Robert W. Corrigan.

Author: Corrigan, Robert W. (Robert Willoughby), ed. 1927-1993.

Imprint:San Francisco : Chandler Pub. Co. [1965]

Descriptionx, 481 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Comedy / Christopher Fry. - The meanings of comedy / Wylie Sypher. - Notes on the comic / W. H. Auden. - The comic mask and carnival / George Santayana. - The bias of comedy and the narrow escape into faith / Nathan A. Scott, Jr. - The comic rhythm / Susanne Langer. - The mythos of spring: comedy / Northrop Frye. - Comedy and laughter / Benjamin Lehmann. - Notes on comedy / L. C. Knights. - The sense of regain: a theory of comedy / Harold H. Watts. - The subject matter of comedy / L. J. Potts. - Comedy / Arthur Koestler. - The comedy of Charlie Chaplin / Al Capp. - Types of comedy / J. L. Styan. - Whatever happened to comedy? / Richard Duprey. - Jokes and the comic / Sigmund Freud. - On the psychology of comedy / Ludwig Jekels. - Beyond laughter: a summing up / Martin Grotjahn. - Farce / Eric Bentley. - Farce / Vsevolod Meyerhold. - Farce as method / Robert C. Stephenson. - The satirist and society / R. C. Elliot. - "It's hideously true" / Al Capp. - Aristophanic comedy: the conscience of a conservative / Robert W. Corrigan. - The saturnalian pattern in Shakespeare's comedy / C. L. Barber. - Molière and farce / Gustave Lanson. - Restoration comedy: the reality and the myth / L. C. Knights. - Shaw's abstract clarity / Reed Whittemore. - A comic complex and a complex comic / Ruby Cohen. - Preface to Tartuffe / Molière. - On the essence of laughter / Charles Baudelaire. - From An Essay on Comedy / George Meredith. - From Laughter / Henri Bergson.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 479-481.

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