Playboys and Killjoys

By :"Harry Levin"

Published on 1988-09-08 by Oxford University Press

Category :"Performing Arts"

Harry Levin--one of America's major literary critics--offers a brilliant and original study of the whole world of comedy, concentrating on playwrights through the centuries, from Aristophanes and Plautus in classical times to Bernard Shaw and Bertolt Brecht and their recent successors. Viewing the comic repertory as a richly varied yet broadly unified whole, Levin provides a synthesis of theories and practice. Isolating two fundamental aspects of comedy--the ludicrous and irreverent \

Playboys and Killjoys

Lenght : 214

Language : en

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