Comedy: A Bibliography of Critical Studies in English on the Theory and Practice of Comedy in Drama, Theatre, and Performance

Meghan Duffy, Daniel Charles Gerould

M. E. Segal Theatre Center, 2006 - Literary Criticism - 109 pages

An essential guide and resource, providing authors, titles, and pulication data for over a thousand books and articles devoted to this most elusive of genres.

Contents

• GENERAL THEORIES: 1
• MYTH AND RITUAL: 16
• MEDIEVAL COMEDY: 33
• GROTESQUE: 42
• RENAISSANCE COMEDY: 48
• CLOWNS AND CLOWNING: 57
• SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDY: 65
• ENLIGHTENMENT COMEDY: 77
• FEMINISM AND COMEDY: 88
• POSTMODERNISM AND COMEDY: 96
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: 109

Bibliographic information

• Title: Comedy: A Bibliography of Critical Studies in English on the Theory and Practice of Comedy in Drama, Theatre, and Performance
• Editors: Meghan Duffy, Daniel Charles Gerould
• Publisher: M. E. Segal Theatre Center, 2006
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Dec 17, 2009
• ISBN: 0966615298, 9780966615296
• Length: 109 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / Drama; Literary Criticism / Reference; Performing Arts / Comedy; Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism