A01=L. J. Potts
Aristotle
Author_L. J. Potts
Ben Jonson
Category=DSB
Category=DSG
characterisation in literature
Chaucer
Coleridge
comedy in drama
comedy in literature
Comic Microcosm
comic theory
Comic Writer
Common Human Pattern
dramatic structure
English comedy
English humour tradition
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Express Train
George Bernard Shaw
Good Natured Man
Jane Austen
Lady Fidget
Lady Teazle
Lady Wishfort
literary criticism
Medieval Comic Tradition
Midsummer Night's Dream
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Moliere
Mr Knightley
narrative analysis
Native Invention
Nineteenth Century Scandinavia
Official State Theatre
Organised State Theatre
philosophy of comic literature
Problem Play
Restoration Comedy
School For Scandal
Sentimental Drama
Shakespeare
Sir John
Sir Joseph
Town Hall
Wild Duck
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781032211336
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 27 Apr 2022
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Originally published in 1949 this book is a study of comedy based on representative works of drama and narrative, mainly in English, from Chaucer to Bernard Shaw. The theme is that comedy implies a philosophy of life that is fairly constant, despite the changes in social conditions and fashions of thought. There is a bibliographical index and the book is illustrated fully and widely by quotations from English comic writers.
L. J. Potts
