Playboys and killjoys : an essay on the theory and practice of comedy / Harry Levin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levin, Harry, 1912-1994, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comedy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 214 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Harry Levin--one of America's leading 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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

PLAYBOYS AND KILLJOYS

Points of Departure

1. Coming to Terms

2. Rules of the Game

3. The Argument

4. Bonds of Interest

5. Reductions to Folly

6. The Truth of Masks

7. Duplicities

8. Zanyism

9. Domesticities

10. Designs for Living

11. Mixed Emotions

12. Metacomedy

SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAYS

A. From Play to Plays

B. Notes on City Comedy

C. Veins of Humor

D. The Wages of Satire

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4237-3563-3

1-60129-651-7

OCLC:

821687887