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Contents
THE SPIRIT OF COMEDY | 13 |
vWylie Sypher The Meanings of Comedy 18 t | 61 |
Nathan A Scott Jr The Bias of Comedy | 81 |
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| Title | Comedy, meaning and form |
| Author | Robert Willoughby Corrigan |
| Editor | Robert Willoughby Corrigan |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1981 |
| Length | 335 pages |
| Subjects | › Comedy Comedy Collected works Comic, The Comic, The Collected works Performing Arts / Comedy |
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