The death of comedy /
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Cambridge, Mass. London, Eng.:
Harvard University Press,
c2001
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Table of Contents:
- Etymologies: getting to the root of it
- The song of the Komos
- The lyre and the phallus
- Aristophanes: the one and only?
- Failure and success
- The Birds: the uncensored fantasy
- Requiem for a genre?
- The comic catastrophe
- O Menander! O life!
- Plautus makes an entrance
- A Plautine problem play
- Terence: the African connection
- The mother-in-law of modern comedy
- Machiavelli: the comedy of evil
- Marlowe: Schade and Freude
- Shakespeare: errors and Eros
- Twelfth night: dark clouds over Illyria
- Moliere: the class of '68
- The fox, the fops, and the factorum
- Comedy explodes
- Beckett: the death of comedy