An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Acharnians agelasts Alceste allusion Aristophanes Athens Atta Troll Aventurière better Book Carlyle Célimène chapter character Cleon Clodd Comedy of Manners comic idea comic perception comic poet Comic Spirit comic writers common sense Compare Congreve Congreve's Cratinus critics Croiset dialogue Duc Pasquier Dulness edition Egoist English Essay on Comedy Eunuchus Eupolis Euripides farce Femmes Savantes Frate Timoteo French Frogs genius George Meredith Goethe Greek Comedy Heauton Timorumenos hero homme humor humorist idea of comedy irony Italian Jean Paul Jonathan Wild l'École des Femmes Lady laugh Le Misanthrope Le Tartuffe literary literature Littérature Littré London Menander ment Meredith reads Meredith's footnote Millamant mind Misanthrope Molière Molière's moral Morley ness novel Paris Plautus play Plutarch poetic Poetry Prince quotation Rabelais realism ridiculous Rogers Sainte-Beuve satire says scene sentimental Shakespeare society style Tartuffe Terence thoughtful laughter tion tophanes tragedy translation UNIV wife women word Wycherley